n.
1.a person employed to watch for something to happen
2.someone employed to discover and recruit talented persons (especially in the worlds of entertainment or sports)
3.someone who can find paths through unexplored territory scout v.
1.explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody
Idiom of the Day
go through channels or go through the proper channels
to use the proper procedures to do something (especially in a hierarchy or bureaucracy)
We must go through the proper channels to get anything done with the city.