won-lost record
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4.1
- noun
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récord de victorias y derrotas
- After analyzing the overall won-lost record, it was clear which teams performed the best.
- team's won-lost record
- best won-lost record
Examples
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Any of the catches could have won a game and done wonders for the Browns' won-lost record, which sits at 2-6 at the midway point of the season (which equates to 4-12 for 16 games).
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On-base average is much more informative than batting average, and ERA is much more informative than won-lost record.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The 129th edition of The Game Saturday afternoon at Harvard Stadium wound up coming down to the final minutes, something that would have surprised anyone who just looked at the won-lost records of Yale and No. 24 Harvard at the start of the day.
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The team's current won-lost record is an impressive 12 wins and 3 losses this season.
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To qualify for the playoffs, the coach emphasized the importance of their won-lost record.
Synonyms
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3.2
A list of past results and achievements by a team or person
How Successful
Surface Forms
Morphology
won-lost + record
The meaning is directly compositional: 'won' and 'lost' specify the types of results recorded, and 'record' denotes a summary of results. A B1 learner who knows 'won', 'lost', and 'record' would readily infer it denotes a summary showing numbers of wins and losses; the hyphenated modifier follows common cross-linguistic sports naming patterns.
Etymology
Won-lost record comes from old scorebooks where people simply wrote how many games were won and how many were lost, often as two numbers with a dash like 8-2. So the phrase became a short 'record' that shows a team's results.