score|keep|er

score|keep|er
score|keep|er «SKR KEE puhr, SKOHR-», noun.
a person who keeps score: »

In a baseball game, the umpire is the official scorekeeper. Figurative. Dun and Bradstreet, the master scorekeeper of business failures, has found that more than nine out of ten business failures were caused by lack of experience or incompetence (Harper's).


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