(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.
Cadre
Definition:
(n.) The framework or skeleton upon which a regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff.
Example Sentences:
(1) ARD TV showing grim-faced FDP cadres: could this be the first time they fall out of national parliament in 60 years?
(2) At first, cadres worked undercover, organising clothes sales and other charitable events without stating their true affiliation.
(3) Even the most popular Shia cleric, Sayyed Mohammed Fadlallah , a man who has deeply affected the thinking of key Hezbollah leaders and cadres since the party's inception, now says in no uncertain terms that Shias and the country as a whole want to see, and should see, a strong Lebanese army as the nation's sole protector; and that the perpetually unstable confessional system must be ended as soon as possible.
(4) After a small cadre of popular "trendsetters" were identified, they received training in approaches for peer education and then contracted to communicate risk reduction recommendations and endorsements to friends.
(5) Although the weight of evidence generally indicates that improved contracture rates with retropectoral placement of the prosthesis and excellent aesthetic results can be obtained with this approach, there remains a significant cadre of surgeons who believe their own retromammary results are equal to or better than the alternative.
(6) Can it focus on a war when it’s busy allotting prime lands to its officer cadre?
(7) It is argued that professional and organizational role conflicts are fostered by primary health care inspired programs introduced without regard to the status and motivations of existing cadres of staff.
(8) Eighty-five and nine-tenths percent chose "guidance counselling" as the approach to the management of student drug abusers despite the death of this professional cadre in the schools.
(9) In an era in which political parties have lost their automatic hold on their constituency, a small cadre can exert an outsized influence – which is why both Kevin Rudd and John Howard took part in an ACL-sponsored form in 2007.
(10) Pertinent themes in the history of responses to epidemic disease in the United States in the past two hundred years include an initial underestimation of the severity of the epidemic; the prevalence of fear and anxiety; flight, denial, and scape-goating as a result of fear; efforts to quarantine and isolate carriers and the sick; the assertion of rational policies by coalitions of business, government, and medical leaders; the recruitment of a special cadre of physicians to treat the sick; the similarity of responses to both epidemic and endemic infectious diseases; and the high cost of epidemics, which is shared by government, philanthropy, and private individuals.
(11) In the future, if such automated systems of truth grading are taken seriously by powerful institutions or the state itself, then the people designing the algorithms will essentially be an unelected cadre of cyber thought police.
(12) In this paper, the role of the medical auxiliary is outlined and a case is also made for a specially-trained cadre for venereal disease work in busy urban clinics in developing countries.
(13) Syriza, Podemos, we will win.” After five years of austerity-fuelled recession that has driven the vast majority of Greeks into poverty and despair, Syriza cadres described the new administration as a “national salvation government”.
(14) Also needed is a targeted Research and Development organization comprising a cadre of capable scientists of requisite disciplines in adequate facilities, dedicated solely to the development of a vaccine against AIDS.
(15) This novel approach, described in some detail in this communication, is recommended for the rapid elimination of wild polioviruses from Asia and Africa, and for ultimate global eradication with the help of a special cadre within the EPI of WHO.
(16) There is a cadre of people in Whitehall who were frankly patronising in their attitude to local government Then what?
(17) A state-of-the-art LIS with direct support by a cadre of highly trained personnel is necessary to pursue this goal.
(18) Strips based on this principle can be used by lower cadres of health workers such as Traditional Birth Attendants, as a screening tool for women nutritionally at risk.
(19) His purging of senior cadres has led to nervousness among the higher echelons of power in Pyongyang and not consolidation.
(20) This is where a cadre of heavily armed, rightwing militia has dug in for its declared war against Washington.