(n.) A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.
(v. t.) To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech.
(v. t.) To ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or from house to house.
(v. t.) To make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to grant a favor.
(v. t.) To take for granted; to assume without proof.
(v. t.) To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
(v. i.) To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.
Example Sentences:
(1) I had to beg to stay in the apartment I was living in at the time for another night.
(2) She said: “Begging can cause considerable concern to residents, workers and visitors, particularly those who feel intimidated by this activity.” In Merseyside, Ch Insp Mark Morgan insisted his force did not prosecute vulnerable people unless they were aggressive, repeat offenders who had failed to engage in offers of support.
(3) The other day I had to BEG a meeting with [BBC1 controller] Jay Hunt, just so I could explain what we're spending all her money on in Doctor Who.
(4) x head "We have the begging bowl out to Europe in the hope of stabilising our economy.
(5) This begs the question of whether racism informed the way he was treated.
(6) The weakest free schools have ineffective leadership ... with little challenge to tackle poor performance.” The report said that the best leaders “understand inspection”, begging the question of whether schools are expected to lead for Ofsted?
(7) Since this dedicated unit was disbanded there has been a significant increase in the numbers of people who are begging, she told the council earlier this year.
(8) Flattered, entreated, begged by the rest of the committee, he did not yield: "Recommendations are recommendations, there it is"; and "I honestly believe it's all there"; "I promise you I have done my very best"; "if I hadn't thought my recommendations were fit for purpose, I would not have made them"; "with all due respect, I could not have done any more than I did".
(9) Any Championship managers watching this will most definitely not be looking forward to next season’s meetings with Newcastle, which rather begs the question: how on earth did it come this?
(10) I begged them to take me to the toilet when we stopped but they refused.
(11) Two of them begged for a rescue mission in phone calls yesterday, as the battles raged through a powerful sandstorm that shrouded the city from journalists and anxious refugees who have been watching the fighting from the safety of Turkish soil, just a few hundred feet away.
(12) She said that although Unicef was doing all it could to protect Syrian children and to help them continue their education, it was a difficult task: some have taken to begging or working in fields or factories to help supplement their families' income, and many girls are getting married earlier without finishing their schooling.
(13) Trump responded by recalling Romney “begging” for his endorsement four years before.
(14) I had seen him begging in the city centre a few times and had slipped him a few bob from time to time.
(15) Some say they were trying to reach Algeria to beg on city streets, others that Europe was their destination.
(16) However this begs the question, if Spotify are not the enemy, who is?
(17) Then go beg the lady with the clipboard, while others swan past to join the cocktail-swilling vacationers swathed in white linen on the porch.
(18) However, providers, physicians and hospitals are begging for relief from the burden of uncompensated care.
(19) Instead, I made my way to Satis to beg Miss Havisham to secretly confer several thousand pounds on Herbert.
(20) It begs the question – were the comments he made after the Hillsborough panel report sincere or just sound bites?"
Cadge
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To carry, as a burden.
(v. t. & i.) To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc.
(v. t. & i.) To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg.
(n.) A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.
Example Sentences:
(1) Kerouac and his friends were still restlessly hitch-hiking across the continent, cadging drinks and borrowing money for a joint, while Carr quietly pursued a career that lasted for more than four decades.
(2) High rail (and bus) fares at peak times add to social exclusion, by barring poorer people from using trains and forcing them into dependence on cars, either by running cars they can't really afford or by cadging lifts from family, friends and neighbours.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close Updated at 7.40pm BST 7.20pm BST Obama camp hits Romney over '47%' comments The Obama campaign has produced a web video hitting Romney for dismissing 47% of Americans as craven spongiforms just looking to cadge the next handout from the producing class.
(4) Or they can lobby ministers privately, cadging 15-minute shards of time and making a case, over and over again.
(5) At Oxford, Crawford was a joint founder of the internationalist poetry magazine Verse and "cadged" poems off the likes of Edwin Morgan, Les Murray and Seamus Heaney, who enclosed £50 with his poem to help with production costs: "His generosity was not only in language, but also in actual dosh."
(6) While some celebrated the idea that Spain had cadged billions of euros from Europe for nothing, others worried that it had been forced to crawl to Brussels with a begging bowl.