| 词汇 | cadged |
| 释义 | cadged past simple and past participle ofcadge cadge verb[ T ] informal often disapprovinguk /kædʒ/ us /kædʒ/ to (try to) get something from someone else without paying for it: 乞讨;乞得;索取 He's always cadging free meals and free trips from/off his clients.他吃饭和出行都老爱占客户的便宜。 Can I cadge a lift home?我能借光搭个便车回家吗？ 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? Making appeals & requests adjuration appellate apply for something apply to appreciate ask a lot besiege car wash cry entreat entreaty imploringly importunately importunity invite invocation leech push scrounge ticket Related wordcadger Examples of cadgedcadged In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. He was his own man; he never cadged a vote. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It cadged £35,000 worth of obsolete equipment which could be used for its purposes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They promised £15 worth of prizes, but they even cadged the prizes from the local shopkeepers, with the result that they put nothing into the pool and took £105 out of it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 After graduation, he cadged a ride in an airplane in 1912. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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