scouting

[ skou-ting ]

noun

1. an act or instance of reconnoitering; reconnaissance.
2. the activities of a scout or scouts. scout.
3. (often initial capital letter) the program of activities of the Boy Scouts or the Girl Scouts.

ˈScouting

/ ˈskaʊtɪŋ /

noun

1. 1. the activities, programmes, principles, etc, of the Scout Association
   2. ( as modifier )

      the international Scouting movement

Other Words From

• scouting·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of scouting¹

First recorded in 1635–45; scout ¹ + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

When another of the NCAA’s silly rules made it verboten to run both a summer camp and a scouting service, Garfinkel sold HSBI to Tom, who was by then writing it anyway.

From Washington Post

New Lions general manager Brad Holmes spent the past seven years as the Rams’ director of college scouting, and he’s the one who pushed the organization hard to draft Goff in the first place.

From FiveThirtyEight

Holmes was the Rams’ director of college scouting when they drafted Goff.

From Washington Post

She vowed to have something to wow Eastman next time, so she started a blog where she published scouting reports and analysis of draft prospects.

From Washington Post

According to ESPN, Porter began texting the female reporter, whose name it withheld, in 2016, when he was the director of professional scouting for the Chicago Cubs.

From Washington Post

This would take time since, under current law, even scouting Cuban baseball players on the island is illegal.

From The Daily Beast

Yeager died this week at 85, but she never stopped scouting new subjects.

From The Daily Beast

The couple apparently visited the royal chateau in January when they were scouting  locations for the big day.

From The Daily Beast

Hourani began to dabble with a myriad of artistic careers, from model scouting to styling to art direction.

From The Daily Beast

As frustration mounts within the Scouting world, a negative PR snowball builds.

From The Daily Beast

About five miles from Monticello Harry overtook the scouting party, now on their way back to that city.

From Project Gutenberg

They were returning from their pursuit of the scouting party and were strung out a long distance along the road.

From Project Gutenberg

He then learned that he had attacked and was chasing a small scouting party towards Versailles.

From Project Gutenberg

From the sand dunes at Nieuport and Dixmude there was firing also, and the air seemed sometimes to be full of scouting planes.

From Project Gutenberg

Morgan's men charged the scouting party, sending them through the village back to the main body in a very demoralized condition.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• aloof
• arrogant
• averse
• contemptuous
• derisive
• haughty
• unsympathetic