What does scrounging mean?
Scrounging means present participle and gerund of scrounge.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
present participle and gerund of scrounge.
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).
Most of them were armed but not wealthy, outfitted in battered leather and the scroungings of a half-dozen battlefields.
Use scrounging when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Scrounging means present participle and gerund of scrounge.
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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).
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