What does scrape up mean?

scrape up means "gather (money or other resources) together over time".

What is another word for scrape up?

Close synonyms include scrape, scratch, come up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is scrape up a common word?

scrape up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

scrape up — meaning, pronunciation and definition

verb

1 senseAn action, occurrence or state of being.

1.
gather (money or other resources) together over time
“She had scraped together enough money for college”
“they scratched a meager living”
Synonymsscrape scratch come up
Broaderroll up
Narrowernickel-and-dime

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