scroungeverb [ I or T ]
uk/skraʊndʒ/us/skraʊndʒ/informalto get things, especially money or food, by asking for them instead of buying them or working for them:
Peter never buys anything - he just scrounges (off his friends).
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Making appeals & requests
- a cry for help idiom
- appellate
- application
- ask for sb
- beseech
- besiege
- besought
- bum
- cri de coeur
- crowdsource
- freeloader
- gateway
- go over sb's head idiom
- hit
- hit sb up
- I'll thank you to do sth idiom
- implore
- pester
- petition
- request
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scrounger
noun [ C ] uk/ˈskraʊn.dʒər/us/ˈskraʊn.dʒɚ/disapproving
He thinks that people who receive welfare benefits are scroungers.
Phrasal verb(s)
scrounge around
scroungenoun
uk/skraʊndʒ/us/skraʊndʒ/UK disapproving or humorouson the scrounge
Someone who is on the scrounge is asking people for things or for money.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Making appeals & requests
- a cry for help idiom
- appellate
- application
- ask for sb
- beseech
- besiege
- besought
- bum
- cri de coeur
- crowdsource
- freeloader
- gateway
- go over sb's head idiom
- hit
- hit sb up
- I'll thank you to do sth idiom
- implore
- pester
- petition
- request
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