Meaning & use
inning
In baseball or cricket, one of the divisions of a game during which each team bats and fields.
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The home team scored three runs in the bottom of the seventh inning.
Rain delayed the match after only two innings had been completed.
A note on using this word
In cricket, the plural innings is also used for a single team's turn at batting, unlike in baseball.
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