Scrounging

There were hyenas in the area scrounging around for food.

Tom lived a year on the street, scrounging for food.

What mattered to Vincenzo may have been a temporary lack of money (his wild living led him into frequent scroungings for cash; he was a bit of a spendthrift).

Most of them were armed but not wealthy, outfitted in battered leather and the scroungings of a half-dozen battlefields.