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词汇 scrounge
释义 scrounge
verb[ I or T ]
 informaluk /skraʊndʒ/ us /skraʊndʒ/
to get things, especially money or food, by asking for them instead of buying them or working for them: 白要;乞讨;不劳而获(尤指金钱或食物)
Peter never buys anything - he just scrounges (off his friends).彼得从不买东西,他总是(从朋友那里)蹭吃蹭喝。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

get something for free
get something for freeReaders of her blog get advice for free.
get something for nothingYou don't get anything for nothing these days.
freeloadThen he went off to freeload some more drinks.
bumHe bums the occasional cigarette from his older brother.
cadgeShe's always cadging drinks from the people she is with.
scroungeCan I scrounge a lift with you?
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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apply for something
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importunity
invite
invocation
leech
pester
push
ticket

Related word


scrounger

Phrasal verb


scrounge around
scrounge
noun
UKdisapproving or humorousuk /skraʊndʒ/ us /skraʊndʒ/
 on the scrounge
Someone who is on the scrounge is asking people for things or for money: 乞讨;索要
At college he was always broke and on the scrounge.

scrounge | American Dictionary


scrounge
verb[ I/T ]
 infmlus/skrɑʊndʒ/
to get something by asking for it instead of buying it or working for it, or to gather something you want or need from what is available:
[ T ]Baxter scrounged furniture and equipment from local businesses.
[ I ]A black cat scrounged through piles of litter.

Examples of scrounge


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However, if scrounging could be partially controlled through non-detection, then both types of sharing may occur, with scrounging behavior simply occurring less frequently.
Indifferent to the martyr and without structural or formal connection to her, they mingle with common pigeons, scrounging in the slush for food.
Norms also vary cross-culturally with respect to the tolerance for begging, harassment, and scrounging behavior.
Scores of family photos in my collection, scrounged from friends or discovered at second-hand bookshops over the years, attest to this truth.
They are just reaching a stage which is called scrounging or pinching, and that is the way to become a criminal.
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At that time coal-owners "scrounged" around trying to find a pit which was unable to produce its quota.
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They refuse to "scrounge" and to exist on the scanty money going into their homes.
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That underclass is a separate class, different from us, by implication scrounging from us, and subverting our values.
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I remember factories being knocked down and then scrounging around for factory space.
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I spend half my time at present in collecting, training and scrounging for young scientists and engineers to handle these things that are coming out.
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At the end of six years of war such activities generally known as "scrounging"or"winning" things became suddenly respectable.
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Clause 3 refers to people who are alleged to be scrounging under the social security system.
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One has only to scrounge about in galleries and elsewhere to find them without having to pay out £½ million.
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They drop out of the system, wander the streets by day, sleep rough at night and scrounge what they can from relatives and friends.
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Through the regulations and guidelines, they are telling people to depend on friends and relatives and to scrounge from them.
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