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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
cadge .
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Examples
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Just twenty-three years old, Washington had a compulsion to brag while he cadged money.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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Just twenty-three years old, Washington had a compulsion to brag while he cadged money.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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Zimbabwe Africans told me that when they tried to start a businesslike a shop, or a farm, or a barand they failed because at the first sign of success their relatives showed up and cadged from them, or implored them to pay their relatives school fees.
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Just twenty-three years old, Washington had a compulsion to brag while he cadged money.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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I cadged tobacco, poor cheap tobacco, from poor doddering old chaps trembling on the edge of dissolution.
CHAPTER XIII 2010
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From his customers he cadged two lamps, two chairs, a mattress, and a card table.
Alba 2009
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He had been cadged for drinks before by the old cannibal, and the sternest tambo Grief and McTavish had laid down was the one forbidding alcohol to the natives of New Gibbon.
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(As any young person who has cadged a down payment from parents can attest, intergenerational wealth transfers are a particularly efficient way of gaining a foothold in homeownership and so building wealth.)
Study: Racial Wealth Gap Widened Over the Last Generation | Impact Lab 2010
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From his customers he cadged two lamps, two chairs, a mattress, and a card table.
Alba 2009
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Just twenty-three years old, Washington had a compulsion to brag while he cadged money.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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