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scrounge

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scrounge someone or something up
Fig. to find someone or something somewhere; to dig someone or something up. I can't think of anyone just now, but I will scrounge someone up. They scrounged up an escort for Liz.
See also: up

scrounge around (for someone or something)

Fig. to look around all over for someone or something. I scrounged around for Jamie, but she was nowhere to be found. I will try to scrounge around for a replacement part that will do the job.
See also: around
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Then there will be less inclination to scrounge and no excuse for anyone who does.
New MPs will be paying the price for greed by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
And it would take them five thousand years at their present rate of fiddling to scrounge as much as Sir Fred's recent failures cost the treasury.
Comparatively little; You Say by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
Surely it couldn't be because by over-estimating our energy usage they can scrounge more money off us and have it sitting earning interest in their coffers instead of ours?
DODGY ELECTRICKS by The Mirror (London, England)
 
 
 
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