scrounging

English

Verb

scrounging

  1. present participle and gerund of scrounge

Noun

scrounging (plural scroungings)

  1. 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).
  2. (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.

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