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scrape together

British  

verb

  1. (tr, adverb) to collect with difficulty

    to scrape together money for a new car
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scrape together Idioms  

  1. see scare up.

Example Sentences

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"Trying to scrape together money in a very tumultuous industry right now is hard," she says.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026

Not a trust fund, not an inheritance — the same seed money anyone might scrape together.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 15, 2025

Increasingly, people live hand to mouth, buying a tomato here, a few onions there as they manage to scrape together enough bolivars for just the basics.

From Barron's • Nov. 14, 2025

They used crowdfunding and took out a second mortgage on their home to scrape together $100,000 to pay for the procedure, setting $55,000 aside in what they thought was a safe escrow account.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 2025

Even though I’m only in elementary school, I can barely scrape together money to pay for notebooks and pens and pencils.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

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