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EI

1 American  

E.I. 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. East Indian.

  2. East Indies.


EI British  

abbreviation

  1. East Indian

  2. East Indies

  3. social psychol emotional intelligence

  4. (in Canada) Employment Insurance: a regular payment to a person who is out of work, funded by contributions from workers and employers

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The book value of MFE’s 40% stake in unlisted EI Towers is around 437 million euros, based on MFE’s 2020 financial statements, implying an overall valuation of EI Towers at more than 1 billion euros.

From Reuters ● Mar. 7, 2022

Rai Way, EI Towers and MFE were not immediately available for comment.

From Reuters ● Mar. 7, 2022

ATO, Smiley said, has no connection with the organization known on campus as EI.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2014

Mr. Beebe joined Suntech Power in 2008, following the company’s acquisition of EI Solutions, a California-based regional solar installer.

From Forbes ● Aug. 22, 2011

She was a farm girl from nearby EI Tobosa, and she was plain, rough, ordinary.

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios

It’s named for an electrical engineering alum who landed a job in 1909 selling explosives for the E.I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Company, and eventually worked his way up to treasurer.

From Barron's ● Dec. 26, 2025

Broudy leaves the reader feeling as though in dealing with E.I. or any set of mysterious symptoms, science and self-diagnosis are just the same.

From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2020

Fortunately, the gas station got a last-minute reprieve from the family of Martha and Henry E.I. du Pont.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 23, 2018

In “Exit Ghost,” Zuckerman has nothing but scorn for the young biographer seeking to unearth long-held “facts” about E.I.

From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2018

The thanks of the Editors, for useful information, loan of books, and other valued favors, are extended to the following persons: Edward E. Ayer, Chicago; Rev. E.I.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 12 of 55 1601-1604 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson

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