scavengerism

English

Etymology

scavenger +‎ -ism

Noun

scavengerism (uncountable)

  1. The practice of scavenging
    • Thomas Carlyle
      Our Public Life and our Private, our State and our Religion, a tissue of half-truths and whole-lies: Cicero's Roman Augurs and their divine chicken-bowels: Despicable amalgam of true and false. A complete course of scavengerism, the thing needed.
    • 1957, Illinois Biological Monographs (issues 25-28, page 123)
      Several congeneric species have been reported there as associated with decomposing plant matter, mushroom culture and corn processing plants, all under circumstances which indicate scavengerism.
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