Deficit and Score

Deficit

Deficit noun - (sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing.

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Score and deficit are semantically related in finance topic. In some cases you can use "Score" instead a noun "Deficit".

Nearby Words: deficient, deficiency

Score noun - A lingering ill will towards a person for a real or imagined wrong.

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Deficit and score are semantically related in finance topic. Sometimes you can use "Deficit" instead a noun "Score".

Nearby Words: scored, scoring, scorer, scoreless

aggregate	aggregate deficit	aggregate score
poor	poor deficit	poor score
massive	massive deficit	massive score
huge	huge deficit	huge score
Other adjectives: different, overall.

Subverted in Madonna, where the protagonists nearly come back from a 400 halftime deficit in the rugby tournament semifinals only to fail to score the winning try as time expires.

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An average score on a test became a relative deficit — evidence of an uneven cognitive profile.

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Liverpool had managed to turn over the two-goal aggregate deficit by racing into a 20 lead in the first half, needing to score just one more to progress.

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