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in·ning  audio  (nng) KEY  

NOUN:
    1. Baseball One of nine divisions or periods of a regulation game, in which each team has a turn at bat as limited by three outs.
    2. innings (used with a sing. verb) Sports The division or period of a cricket game during which one team is at bat.
  1. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) An opportunity to act or speak out; a chance for accomplishment. Often used in the plural with singular or plural verb.
  2. The reclamation of flooded or marshy land.

ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English innynge, a getting in, from Old English innung, gerund of innian, to put in, from in, in ; see in 1


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