Scrounging
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Scrounging is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of scrounge.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of scrounge.
More Meanings
- The act of one who scrounges.
- (in the plural) Material that has been scrounged.
Example Sentences
Most of them were armed but not wealthy, outfitted in battered leather and the scroungings of a half-dozen battlefields.
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).
Word Forms
- scroungings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include forage, cadge, scavengerism, scavenging, scavengership, scavengering.
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