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score

/skoɹ/ interjection C2
  1. An acknowledgement of success. (US, slang)
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“Well, here I am, proving at once that I am really neither the one nor the other, by entreating you to keep your promise on that score.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 797 · C1
“Be easy on that score, M.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 38 · C1
You owe me nothing but some trifle of 20,000 francs, which you have been saved out of your travelling expenses, so that there is not much of a score between us;—but you must really permit me to congratulate you on the ease and unconcern with which you resigned yourself to your fate, and the perfect indifference you manifested as to the turn events might take.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 412 · C1
“Sir,” returned the young man, with a reassurance of manner, “make your mind easy on this score.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 594 · C1

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