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present participle and gerund of scrounge examples
plural scroungings
The act of one who scrounges. quotations examples
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).
2002, Marie-Anne Lescourret, Rubens: A Portrait, page 160
(in the plural) Material that has been scrounged. quotations examples
Most of them were armed but not wealthy, outfitted in battered leather and the scroungings of a half-dozen battlefields.
2010, Liane Merciel, The River Kings' Road, page 110