scorekeeper
noun
score·keep·er
ˈskȯr-ˌkē-pər 
: one that keeps score
specifically
: an official who records the score during a game or contest
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The historic performance also came roughly a month after Lamar’s vicious rap beef with Drake, in which he was deemed the winner by Internet scorekeepers.
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Kailyn Brown, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
When the measure was stripped out of the final version of the legislation after Republicans objected to its hefty price tag, which congressional scorekeepers estimated could hit $140 billion, the senators went back to the drawing board.
—Catie Edmondson, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2024
New spending restraints agreed to last year by President Biden and Republicans in Congress will help slow the growth in the federal deficit by roughly $1.4 trillion over the next decade, according to a new report by Congress’s nonpartisan fiscal scorekeeper.
—Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2024
The coach had no clue what was going on until the referee told him to find a new scorekeeper the rest of the night.
—The Indianapolis Star, 31 Dec. 2023
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Kailyn Brown, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
When the measure was stripped out of the final version of the legislation after Republicans objected to its hefty price tag, which congressional scorekeepers estimated could hit $140 billion, the senators went back to the drawing board.
—Catie Edmondson, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2024
New spending restraints agreed to last year by President Biden and Republicans in Congress will help slow the growth in the federal deficit by roughly $1.4 trillion over the next decade, according to a new report by Congress’s nonpartisan fiscal scorekeeper.
—Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2024
The coach had no clue what was going on until the referee told him to find a new scorekeeper the rest of the night.
—The Indianapolis Star, 31 Dec. 2023
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scorekeeper
noun
score·keep·er
-ˌkē-pər
: a person appointed to record the score during the progress of a game or contest
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