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ice box | fridge, refrigerator; cool box |
ice-cream cone | cornet |
in box (on desk) | in-tray |
in the cards [colloq.] (likely or probable) | on the cards [colloq.] |
in back (of) | at the back (of), behind |
in the hospital (hospitalized) | in hospital |
Inc. (Incorporated) | Ltd.
(Abbreviation for 'Limited'. Ltd. company owners have limited personal liability in the event of a bankruptcy.) |
income (in accounting) | profit |
income statement (in accounting) | profit and loss account |
independent clause [grammar] | main clause |
India ink | Indian ink |
industrial park | industrial estate, trading estate |
infeasible, infeasibility | unfeasible, unfeasibility |
infirmary | sickroom at US school, college, prison, etc. |
initial public offering (IPO) (on stock market) | flotation |
inn | small, rural area hotel; sometimes a bar |
inseam (length of inside seam on pair of pants) | inside leg |
installment plan | HP, hire purchase |
instant replay | action replay |
intermission (break in movie/theater performance) | interval |
intern
(new hospital doctor gaining on-the-job experience and still undergoing training) |
houseman |
intersection | crossroads, junction |
interstate, interstate highway | trunk road or motorway linking major U.S. cities |
inventories (goods available for delivery) | stocks |
Italian dressing | French dressing |
Italian ice | water ice |
Ivy League | America's most reputable universities, all located in the northeast: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale. (compare Oxbridge) |