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scrounging

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  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of scrounge

noun scroungings

  1. The act of one who scrounges. 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 plural Material that has been scrounged. Most of them were armed but not wealthy, outfitted in battered leather and the scroungings of a half-dozen battlefields.

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noun the act of one who scrounge

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@misc{scrounging_2026,
  title = {scrounging},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/scrounging},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}