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Definition of scrounge in English: scroungeverb skraʊn(d)ʒskraʊndʒ [with object]informal 1Seek to obtain (something, typically food or money) at the expense or through the generosity of others or by stealth. 乞讨；骗取；偷窃 he had managed to scrounge a free meal 他设法骗得了一顿不花钱的饭。 we stopped scrounging for cigarettes no object we didn't scrounge off the social security 我们并没有骗取社会福利。 Example sentencesExamples - The lack of materials meant that teachers must either use lecture and recitation or spend unrealistic amounts of time scrounging for materials and planning creative lessons.
- Like the queen, he doesn't carry cash, so the billionaire has to scrounge cab fare from colleagues.
- This meant that when we weren't shooting, we were scrounging for work.
- As a reviewer I don't get sent everything I ask for and so I scrounge quite a bit - but only for the films I really, really want.
- My grades need to be brought up, and I am scrounging for credits for college.
- Bears scrounging for human food will be busy at the water-side campsites, and will almost invariably ignore the far-removed and unproductive woods.
- The cash-strapped firm may have hit on a solution for companies scrounging for the dough to pump up pension funds that were recently flattened by the stock market's slide.
- She expresses her desire to send him as much money as she can scrounge up.
- You spend your benefit money on drugs and then you come round here scrounging for free food.
- As stowaways scrounging for food, they are forced to flee the authorities.
- Yet, here he was, dressed in the dirtiest of clothes, scrounging for money.
- Your father is going to tear up that contract and we're going to be out scrounging for work again.
- Instead of loosing my mind, or scrounging for food, or searching for a soul survivor, I decided to do my laundry instead.
- And the crews I sent scrounging for projectiles?
- So it's not really scrounging for money anymore.
- I spent 10 years out on the streets, scrounging for food, after you turned her against me!
Synonyms beg, borrow informal cadge, sponge, bum, touch someone for British informal scab Scottish informal sorn on someone for North American informal mooch Australian/New Zealand informal bludge - 1.1often scrounge something upNorth American Search for or obtain by searching.
Example sentencesExamples - As far as I know, the Sidearms were usually issued too officers, but enlisted men were able to scrounge them up easily enough.
- Thank you so much for scrounging them up for me in the first place.
- He scrounged them up in the Municipal Archives on Chambers Street in Manhattan, the address of which he has committed to memory.
- ‘Yes, I was hoping you would scrounge something up for me,’ Anya grinned.
noun skraʊn(d)ʒskraʊndʒ informal An act of scrounging. Example sentencesExamples - How can the mother get tax credits if she pays no tax as she's not working... that is a good scrounge.
- It was in fact, an official scrounge, all expenses paid.
- I can have a scrounge around for you as I'm not going to bed but don't have anything really important to do at the moment.
- I will have a scrounge around today and see if I can find any more.
Phrasesinformal Engaged in scrounging. she's always on the scrounge Example sentencesExamples - Mention asylum seekers and he shakes his fist at all those foreigners on the scrounge.
- Or the fact that the Liberal had to go on the scrounge because he didn't have a pen in the first place!
- Miners also worked over the island itself, digging and turning over much of the land over like Wombats on the scrounge, leaving a battlefield landscape of deeply gouged scars.
- I'd rather give my money to help Iranian democrats than bloggers on the scrounge wouldn't you?
- The prodigal ex-hippie who returns to an Essex village after blagging his way through eight years on the scrounge is still as charming and feckless as ever.
- So on the scrounge for tickets and a trip to Cardiff now!
- The cliches are there, waiting to be embraced - the prissy sister, the loser on the scrounge, the kid who talks about a daddy he has never seen.
- Just had an invite to the press conference on Monday and I'm on the scrounge for questions.
OriginEarly 20th century: variant of dialect scrunge 'steal'. Definition of scrounge in US English: scroungeverbskrounjskraʊndʒ [with object]informal Seek to obtain (something, typically food or money) at the expense or through the generosity of others or by stealth. 乞讨；骗取；偷窃 he had managed to scrounge a free meal 他设法骗得了一顿不花钱的饭。 no object we didn't scrounge off the social security 我们并没有骗取社会福利。 Example sentencesExamples - You spend your benefit money on drugs and then you come round here scrounging for free food.
- The lack of materials meant that teachers must either use lecture and recitation or spend unrealistic amounts of time scrounging for materials and planning creative lessons.
- As a reviewer I don't get sent everything I ask for and so I scrounge quite a bit - but only for the films I really, really want.
- So it's not really scrounging for money anymore.
- Bears scrounging for human food will be busy at the water-side campsites, and will almost invariably ignore the far-removed and unproductive woods.
- Your father is going to tear up that contract and we're going to be out scrounging for work again.
- I spent 10 years out on the streets, scrounging for food, after you turned her against me!
- She expresses her desire to send him as much money as she can scrounge up.
- And the crews I sent scrounging for projectiles?
- Like the queen, he doesn't carry cash, so the billionaire has to scrounge cab fare from colleagues.
- My grades need to be brought up, and I am scrounging for credits for college.
- The cash-strapped firm may have hit on a solution for companies scrounging for the dough to pump up pension funds that were recently flattened by the stock market's slide.
- Instead of loosing my mind, or scrounging for food, or searching for a soul survivor, I decided to do my laundry instead.
- As stowaways scrounging for food, they are forced to flee the authorities.
- Yet, here he was, dressed in the dirtiest of clothes, scrounging for money.
- This meant that when we weren't shooting, we were scrounging for work.
nounskrounjskraʊndʒ informal An act of scrounging. Example sentencesExamples - How can the mother get tax credits if she pays no tax as she's not working... that is a good scrounge.
- I will have a scrounge around today and see if I can find any more.
- It was in fact, an official scrounge, all expenses paid.
- I can have a scrounge around for you as I'm not going to bed but don't have anything really important to do at the moment.
OriginEarly 20th century: variant of dialect scrunge ‘steal’. |