scrounging

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of scrounge

noun

1. The act of one who scrounges.

   “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).”

2. (in-plural)Material that has been scrounged.

   “Most of them were armed but not wealthy, outfitted in battered leather and the scroungings of a half-dozen battlefields.”