Scavenger

Grammar

This term is a noun.

Etimology of Scavenger

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1540s, originally “person hired to remove refuse from streets,” from Middle English scawageour (late 14c.), London official in charge of collecting tax on goods sold by foreign merchants, from Anglo-French scawager, from scawage “toll or duty on goods offered for sale in one’s precinct” (c. 1400), from Old North French escauwage “inspection,” from a Germanic source (compare Old High German scouwon, Old English sceawian “to look at, inspect;” see show (verb)). It has come to be regarded as an agent noun in -er, but the verb is a late back-formation from the noun. With unetymological -n- (c. 1500) as in harbinger, passenger, messenger, etc. Extended to animals 1590s. Scavenger hunt is attested from 1937.

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Legal English Vocabulary: Scavenger in Spanish

Online translation of the English legal term scavenger into Spanish: recolector de basura (English to Spanish translation) . More about legal dictionary from english to spanish online.

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• Poverty
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