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innings
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun innings has 1 sense
- innings(n = noun.act) - the batting turn of a cricket player or team; has particulars: follow-on
is a kind of play, turn
is a part of cricket
OXFORD DICTIONARY
innings, n. (pl. same or colloq. inningses)
1 esp. Cricket a the part of a game during which a side is in or batting. b the play of or score achieved by a player during a turn at batting.
2 a period during which a government, party, cause, etc. is in office or effective.
3 a a period during which a person can achieve something. b colloq. a person's life span (had a good innings and died at 94).
1 esp. Cricket a the part of a game during which a side is in or batting. b the play of or score achieved by a player during a turn at batting.
2 a period during which a government, party, cause, etc. is in office or effective.
3 a a period during which a person can achieve something. b colloq. a person's life span (had a good innings and died at 94).
ROGET THESAURUS
innings
Acquisition
N acquisition, gaining, obtainment, procuration, procurement, purchase, descent, inheritance, gift, recovery, retrieval, revendication, replevin, restitution, redemption, salvage, trover, find, trouvaille, foundling, gain, thrift, money-making, money grubbing, lucre, filthy lucre, pelf, loaves and fishes, the main chance, emolument, profit, earnings, winnings, innings, pickings, net profit, avails, income, proceeds, produce, product, outcome, output, return, fruit, crop, harvest, second crop, aftermath, benefit, sweepstakes, trick, prize, pool, pot, wealth, subreption, obreption, stealing, acquiring, acquired, profitable, advantageous, gainful, remunerative, paying, lucrative, lucri causa.Receipt
N receipt, value received, money coming in, income, incomings, innings, revenue, return, proceeds, gross receipts, net profit, earnings, accepta, avails, rent, rent roll, rental, rentage, rack-rent, premium, bonus, sweepstakes, tontine, pension, annuity, jointure, alimony, palimony, pittance, emolument, receiving, received, profitable.Land
N land, earth, ground, dry land, terra firma, continent, mainland, peninsula, chersonese, delta, tongue of land, neck of land, isthmus, oasis, promontory, highland, coast, shore, scar, strand, beach, playa, bank, lea, seaboard, seaside, seabank, seacoast, seabeach, ironbound coast, loom of the land, derelict, innings, alluvium, alluvion, ancon, riverbank, river bank, levee, soil, glebe, clay, loam, marl, cledge, chalk, gravel, mold, subsoil, clod, clot, rock, crag, acres, real estate, landsman, earthy, continental, midland, coastal, littoral, riparian, alluvial, terrene, landed, predial, territorial, geophilous, ripicolous, ashore, on shore, on land.
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