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scout·ing
(skou′tĭng)n.
1. The action of one that scouts.
2. often Scouting The activities of the Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts.
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Scouting
(ˈskaʊtɪŋ)n
a. the activities, programmes, principles, etc, of the Scout Association
b. (as modifier): the international Scouting movement.
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scout•ing
(ˈskaʊ tɪŋ)n.
1. the activities of a scout.
2. (often cap.) the program of activities of the Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts.
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Noun 1. [画像:scouting - exploring in order to gain information]scouting - exploring in order to gain information; "scouting in enemy territory is very dangerous"
reconnaissance, reconnaissance mission - the act of reconnoitring (especially to gain information about an enemy or potential enemy); "an exchange of fire occurred on a reconnaissance mission"
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partio
scautismoscoutismo
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
scouting
n
→ Erkunden nt, → Auskundschaften nt; (Mil) → Aufklärung f; (= looking) → Suche f → (for nach); (for talent) → Talentsuche f
Scouting (= scout movement) → Pfadfinderei f (inf), → Pfadfindertum nt
adj attr Scouting → Pfadfinder-; Scouting organization → Pfadfinderorganisation f
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
scouting
[ˈskaʊtɪŋ] n → scoutismoCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995