cadge
verb (used with object)
to obtain by imposing on another's generosity or friendship.
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
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It has already made more than what 2008's film drama winner, Atonement, had cadged by this time last year.
From Time Magazine Archive
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