- [countable] a written text of a play, film, broadcast, talk, etc.
- That line isn't in the original script.
- a film script
- to write/read a script
- We're currently working on a script.
- He was reading from a prepared script.
Extra ExamplesTopics Film and theatreb1- a script about a farmer's life
- a script for children's TV
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- draft
- original
- final
- …
- prepare
- write
- co-write
- …
- editor
- writer
- script about
- script for
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- [uncountable] writing done by hand
- She admired his neat script.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- neat
- cursive
- flowing
- …
- in a/the script
- [uncountable, countable] a set of letters in which a language is written synonym alphabet
- a document in Cyrillic script (= used to write Russian and some other languages)
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- neat
- cursive
- flowing
- …
- in a/the script
- [countable] (British English) a candidate’s written answer or answers in an examTopics Educationc2
- [uncountable, countable] (computing) a series of instructions for a computer, carried out in a particular order, for example when a link in a website is clicked
- The bug was caused by an error in the script.
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘something written’): shortening of Old French escript, from Latin scriptum, neuter past participle (used as a noun) of scribere ‘write’.
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