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[hawr-ding, hohr-]

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noun

the act of a person who hoards.

hoardings, things that are hoarded.

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Origin:
1585–95; hoard + -ing¹

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The cut-off date is intended in part to prevent hoarding.

From everything you've said, the hoarding is only going to escalate over time, regardless.

Whatever brought on the initial shock, hoarding now is exacerbating it.

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The cut-off date is intended in part to prevent hoarding.

From everything you've said, the hoarding is only going to escalate over time, regardless.

Whatever brought on the initial shock, hoarding now is exacerbating it.

Crabs hoarding jellyfish scoot with clawfuls into crevices.

Specially if hoarding of resources by a few results in suffering by others.

Like everything else, compulsive hoarding has gone digital.

Hoarding horrifies me, perhaps in part because it is profoundly ugly.

In the corporate world such hoarding leads to lost profits.

Crabs hoarding jelly?sh scoot with clawfuls into crevices.

No need to hide out in the woods, hoarding emergency rations and ammo.

Any person able read the hoarding thread without cleaning or organizing something soon after is unfathomable to me.

Perhaps that hoarding is an insurance against unpredictable government.

Lake took to the challenge of exposing fakes with the same zeal he's shown in hoarding miniature liquor bottles.

Banks are also hoarding their cash, aware how precious it is.

On the other hand, it seems that many firms are hoarding labour.

Although cash reserves are now at record levels, the hoarding seems to be peaking.

Another sign of mounting fear is that banks are hoarding again.

Bankers themselves deny the charge that they are hoarding capital.

It poured cash into the banking system in a pre-emptive strike against panic hoarding.

Hoarding cash for a rainy day was seen as a failure of executive imagination.

People's instinctive reaction was to start hoarding.

After all, the liquidity hoarding would not last for ever.

Some claim that oil producers are in effect hoarding oil below the ground.

Banks, forced to contemplate redeeming hundreds of billions of dollars in maturing commercial loans, began hoarding liquidity.

Already, there are signs that people are hoarding gold.

The absence of hoarding is not conclusive proof of speculators' innocence.

Life was reduced to food: buying, hoarding and eating.

We can live a productive digital life without hoarding information.

Officials are worried that the noticeable difference in weight might lead to hoarding.

The spiraling chaos that comes with hoarding violates order and harmony.

Banks call that hoarding behavior, but nostalgia sounds nicer.

He was accused of hoarding grain in a time of famine.

The price jolt has provoked riots, panicked hoarding and violent protests in poor countries.

Normally, speculation drives up commodity prices by promoting hoarding.

That's what makes hoarding so frustrating to deal with.

Yet there's no sign of resource hoarding in the data:.

Mentor has been hoarding perspicacious letters about disability for a future column and welcomes more.

For example, firms across the rich world are hoarding cash.

Food scarcities threaten governments overseas and spur hoarding at home.

Instead, it spent a little bit of what it had a lot of-money-while jealously hoarding its real store of value.

Dark rumors of hoarding and market manipulation starting to spread.

The hoarding of information has historically been seen as a source of power.

Those rules, league officials say, are intended to keep rich teams from hoarding the best talent.

In one recent raid, they killed local officials who were said to have been hoarding currency.

This, they argue, would deter speculators from hoarding empty property and help bring prices down.

Food hoarding is reportedly aggravating shortages-even where rain has been plentiful.

But the imminent spring harvest should lower rice prices, kept high by farmers hoarding rather than selling their grain.

The courtyard is piled with bricks that villagers have been hoarding in the hope of one day building a new church.

Other firms are hoarding their profits and waiting for the tax regime to change.

There is still the danger that governments will panic and start limiting exports or hoarding supplies.

Just as important, it may make future crises less likely by offering a viable alternative to hoarding foreign exchange.

Nor is it obvious that producers are hoarding supplies.

Labour hoarding is what causes productivity to fall in a recession.

And labour hoarding only makes sense when workers have firm-specific human capital.

The oil prices may be hedged, but the world has shifted to the tack of hoarding.

Traders have begun to talk about scarcity and hoarding.

Hoarding surrounds large tracts of undeveloped land.

As long as the only solution is monetary based there will always be fatcats hoarding for themselves and the poor who suffer.

Hoarding effectively removed money from circulation, adding further to the deflationary pressures.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

a temporary fence enclosing a construction site.

British. a billboard.

Origin:
1815–25; obsolete hoard (≪ Old French hourd(e) palisade made of hurdles < Germanic; compare German Hürde hurdle) + -ing¹

noun

a supply or accumulation that is hidden or carefully guarded for preservation, future use, etc.: a vast hoard of silver.

verb (used with object)

to accumulate for preservation, future use, etc., in a hidden or carefully guarded place: to hoard food during a shortage.

verb (used without object)

to accumulate money, food, or the like, in a hidden or carefully guarded place for preservation, future use, etc.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English hord(e), Old English hord; cognate with Old Norse hodd, Old High German hort, Gothic huzd treasure; see hide¹, hide²

Related forms

hoard·er, noun

un·hoard·ed, adjective

Can be confused: hoard, horde.

Synonyms
1. stockpile, reserve, cache, store, stock.

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World English Dictionary

hoarding (ˈhɔːdɪŋ)

—n
1.	Also called (esp US and Canadian): billboard a large board used for displaying advertising posters, as by a road
2.	a temporary wooden fence erected round a building or demolition site

[C19: from C15 hoard fence, from Old French hourd palisade, of Germanic origin, related to Gothic haurds, Old Norse hurth door]

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Word Origin & History

hoard

O.E. hord "treasure, valuable stock or store," from P.Gmc. *khuzdan (cf. O.N. hodd, Ger. hort, Goth. huzd "treasure," lit. "hidden treasure"), from *kuzdho, probably from PIE base *(s)keu- "to cover, conceal" (see hide (n.1)). The verb is from O.E. hordian.

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