Usually means: Searching for items using resourcefulness.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word scrounging:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. scrounging: Merriam-Webster
  2. scrounging: Collins English Dictionary
  3. scrounging: Vocabulary.com
  4. Scrounging, scrounging: Wordnik
  5. scrounging: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. scrounging: Wiktionary
  7. scrounging: Dictionary.com
  8. scrounging: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. scrounging: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scrounging: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scrounging: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (scrounging)

▸ noun:  The act of one who scrounges.
▸ noun:  (in the plural) Material that has been scrounged.

Similar:
forage, cadge, scavengerism, scavenging, scavengership, scavengering, scrappage, scrapping, scramb, scumming, more...

Types:
begging, mooching, freeloading, scavenging, pilfering, looting, panhandling, sponging, more...

Phrases:
scrounging up, more...

Adjectives:
little, urban, creative, busy, more, daily, diligent, tolerated, constant



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Similar:
forage, cadge, scavengerism, scavenging, scavengership, scavengering, scrappage, scrapping, scramb, scumming, more...

Types:
begging, mooching, freeloading, scavenging, pilfering, looting, panhandling, sponging, more...

Phrases:
scrounging up, more...

Adjectives:
little, urban, creative, busy, more, daily, diligent, tolerated, constant



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