0 to get things, especially money or food, by asking for them instead of buying them or working for them:
1 Someone who is on the scrounge is asking people for things or for money.
2 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:
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.
At that time coal-owners "scrounged" around trying to find a pit which was unable to produce its quota.
They refuse to "scrounge" and to exist on the scanty money going into their homes.
That underclass is a separate class, different from us, by implication scrounging from us, and subverting our values.
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白要, 乞討, 不勞而獲(尤指金錢或食物)…
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gorronear, gorrear…
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surrupiar, filar…
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ondan bundan dilenmek, beleşçilik yapmak, bedavaya konmak…
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