IB

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ib"

Translingual

Symbol

IB

1. (international standards) Indeterminately reserved ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization.

Usage notes

This is an indeterminately reserved code, included as part of ISO 3166-1 on the request of the World Intellectual Property Organization due to its use in the WIPO ST.3 standard, and is not endorsed for general use by the ISO.

English

Proper noun

IB

1. (education) Initialism of International Baccalaureate.

   Coordinate terms: IBO, AP

2. (finance) Initialism of investment banking.

Noun

IB (plural IBs)

1. (education) An International Baccalaureate program

   Coordinate term: AP

2. (military) Initialism of integrated battlefield.
3. (pathology) Initialism of infectious bronchitis.
4. (Singlish) Initialism of internet brigade.
   • 2020 July 6, “Is the Internet Brigade allegedly under PAP working OT to undermine alternative parties?”, in The Online Citizen‎^[1], archived from the original on 3 June 2023:

     But — the PAP’s IB has a digital weapon that the non-PAP IB doesn’t — the POFMA.

Anagrams

• BI, bi, bi-