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单词 cadge
释义
cadge
verb[T]
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uk
/kædʒ/us
/kædʒ/
to (tryto) get something from someoneelsewithoutpayingfor it:
乞讨；乞得；索取
He's always cadgingfreemealsandfreetripsfrom/offhisclients.他吃饭和出行都老爱占客户的便宜。
Can I cadge alifthome?我能借光搭个便车回家吗？
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
get something for free
  • get something for freeReaders of her blog get advice for free.
  • get something for nothingYou don't get anything for nothing these days.
  • freeloadThen he went off to freeload some more drinks.
  • bumHe bums the occasional cigarette from his older brother.
  • cadgeShe's always cadging drinks from the people she is with.
  • scroungeCan I scrounge a lift with you?
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Making appeals & requests
  • appellate
  • ask forsomeone
  • behest
  • call for orderphrase
  • call onsomeone
  • callsomeonein
  • cap
  • claim
  • demand
  • implore
  • invite
  • pay claim
  • petitioner
  • pretty pleaseidiom
  • propitiation
  • push forsomething
  • put in forsomething
  • put the squeeze onsomeoneidiom
  • reapply
  • requisition
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cadger
(Definition ofcadgefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcadge

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I hate to see a proud and great nation like ours go round the world cadging for money.
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One might almost say that it was cadging for an invitation.
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What a vista of bargaining and canvassing and cadging for votes this opens up.
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He was his own man; he never cadged a vote.
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They were men who did not go round seeking help or cadging support.
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It is not a question of cadging in the least.
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I am not cadging any favour for the agricultural industry.
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It is apparently going tocadgeround to the different districts near it, and get what it can out of them.
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He was cadging pints in the pub, and he could not survive on the dole money.
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What about all those 2,000 people for whom there is no means of transport except cadging a lift, hiring a car or walk- ing?
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They cannot replace them; they just borrow them orcadgethem from somebody else.
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It cadged £35,000 worth of obsolete equipment which could be used for its purposes.
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They promised £15 worth of prizes, but they even cadged the prizes from the local shopkeepers, with the result that they put nothing into the pool and took £105 out of it.
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After graduation, he cadged a ride in an airplane in 1912.
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During quiet periods in a match, he would leave his goal andcadgesweets from children in the crowd or take and eat a pie from supporters.
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