"score-off" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: score-offs [plural]
Etymology: From score off (verb). Etymology templates: {{m|en|score off|pos=verb}} score off (verb) Head templates: {{en-noun}} score-off (plural score-offs)
  1. (rare) The action or result of scoring off someone (a rebuttal, a point won). Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-score-off-en-noun-t6Ia3QEN Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1930, Wyndham Lewis, The Apes of God, page 354",
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          "ref": "1955, Oireachtas [Irish Parliament], Díosbóireachtaí párlaiminte: tuairisc oifigiúil [Parliamentary debates: official report], volume 150, p. 294",
          "text": "[…] the Minister should come in here and use the occasion of the making of his statement on such an important matter as the Estimate for his Department as a political score-off on his opponents.",
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