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score

/skɔː/noun

The number of points, goals, or runs each side has in a game or competition.

Example sentences

  • “At halftime the score was still tied at two goals each.”
  • “The final score was three to one in our favor.”

An older sense means twenty, as in Lincoln's 'four score and seven years ago'. To 'settle a score' is to take revenge.

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