scrounge<br/> to get <b>as</b> needed by or as if by foraging, scavenging, or borrowing &lt;<i>scrounging</i> enough money for a bus ticket&gt;<br/><br/>Is 'as' used in the following sense as a conjunction?<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>7 : for the reason that : because, since &lt;stayed home as she had no car&gt;