Meaning of scad | Babel Free
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- Any of several fish, of the family Carangidae, from the western Atlantic.
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A large number or quantity. Canada, US, in-plural, informal
Equivalents
Suomi
piikkimakrilli
Examples
“scads of money”
“it will surely rust, take on a loud of stains and pits, acquire a scad of dust.”
“You take temporary employment for office employees and there are a whole scad of people doing that and nothing else.”
“Galleries everywhere are awash in these brand-name reductivist canvases, […], mimicking a set of preapproved influences. (It’s also a global presence: I saw scads of it in Berlin a few weeks back, and art fairs are inundated.)”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.