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score

3 number
     
Related topics: Numbers
score3
1 plural scoreHMN a group of 20, or about 20, people or things
a score of something
Our coach was escorted by a score of policemen.
three score years and ten old use (=70 years, a person's expected length of life)
2

scores of something

a lot of people or things:
Scores of victims were killed.
3

by the score

in large numbers:
Friends came to help by the score.
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