English Explanatory Dictionary

keep score

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To keep track of the score in a game.
  2. To keep track of figures, numbers, or other details in various other contexts.
  3. To keep track of other people's behaviors and actions, whether they have infringed on the person keeping track, worked at cross purposes, etc: to keep track interpersonally, politically, and in terms of social networking (human interactions of all types, nondigital and digital).

Word forms

keep score keeps score keeping score kept score

Related words

even the score settle the score pay off old scores scoreboard scorebook scorecard scorekeeper scorekeeping
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