Definition of "scroungers" [scroungers]

• Plural form of scrounger. (noun)

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• "Did the so called scroungers ask for these new fittings to be fitted or is it the state that is at blame for giving this much material pleasure to them?"
• "The idea of the dole itself has also gone through a number of transformations in the collective imagination, variously as a legitimate citizen's right, a state manifestation of charity, or for the conservatively inclined, an inexhaustible teat for so-called scroungers and welfare cheats."
• "After scapegoating benefit 'scroungers' and the disabled as the root of all evil in this country now it's the turn of some other folk 'not quite like us...'"