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scrounging - What does it mean?

Definition of 'scrounging'

English

Verb

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  • Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The act of one who scrounges.
  • * 2002 , Marie-Anne Lescourret, Rubens: A Portrait (page 160)
  • What mattered to Vincenzo may have been a temporary lack of money (his wild living led him into frequent scroungings for cash; he was a bit of a spendthrift).
  • (in the plural) Material that has been scrounged.
  • * 2010 , Liane Merciel, The River Kings' Road (page 110)
  • Most of them were armed but not wealthy, outfitted in battered leather and the scroungings of a half-dozen battlefields.