hoarding1
[hawr-ding, hohr-]
Origin of hoarding1
hoarding2
[hawr-ding, hohr-]
- a temporary fence enclosing a construction site.
- British. a billboard.
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Origin of hoarding2
1815–25; obsolete hoard (≪ Old French hourd(e) palisade made of hurdles < Germanic; compare German Hürde hurdle) + -ing1
hoard
[hawrd, hohrd]
- a supply or accumulation that is hidden or carefully guarded for preservation, future use, etc.: a vast hoard of silver.
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- to accumulate for preservation, future use, etc., in a hidden or carefully guarded place: to hoard food during a shortage.
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- to accumulate money, food, or the like, in a hidden or carefully guarded place for preservation, future use, etc.
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Origin of hoard
Synonyms
See more synonyms for hoard on Thesaurus.com1. stockpile, reserve, cache, store, stock.
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Examples from the Web for hoarding
Contemporary Examples
Panicked, I reached out to hoarding experts, who often refer to any kind of obsessive digital collecting as “infomania.”
Perhaps I should be more understanding, now that my own hoarding tendencies are flaring up.
But in the Digital Age, we're at risk of a new type of hoarding that is equally problematic.
The financial system is awash with money, yet the Federal Reserve accuses both consumers and institutions of hoarding it.
Hoarding is now a cottage industry, as shoppers try to get a jump on price gougers by snapping up staple goods by the trunk-load.
Historical Examples
She had been hoarding it up for that secret hour, and now she was alone with it, and all the world was still.
The Eternal CityHall Caine
The Pasha also seems perfectly indifferent to hoarding money.
Journal of a Residence at BagdadAnthony Groves
Nearly every other omnibus carried the legend of The Plague-Spot; every hoarding had it.
A Great ManArnold Bennett
Thousands of millions of tons of it, while we've been hoarding it by grams.
Masters of SpaceEdward Elmer Smith
"Hoarding," a voice answered, and others supplied the few details.
Police Your PlanetLester del Rey
hoarding
- a large board used for displaying advertising posters, as by a roadAlso called (esp US and Canadian): billboard
- a temporary wooden fence erected round a building or demolition site
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Word Origin
C19: from C15 hoard fence, from Old French hourd palisade, of Germanic origin, related to Gothic haurds, Old Norse hurth door
hoard
- an accumulated store hidden away for future use
- a cache of ancient coins, treasure, etc
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- to gather or accumulate (a hoard)
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Word Origin
Old English hord; related to Old Norse hodd, Gothic huzd, German Hort, Swedish hydda hut
usage
Hoard is sometimes wrongly written where horde is meant: hordes (not hoards) of tourists
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Word Origin and History for hoarding
hoard
n.
Old English hord "treasure, valuable stock or store," from Proto-Germanic *huzdam (cf. Old Saxon hord "treasure, hidden or inmost place," Old Norse hodd, German Hort, Gothic huzd "treasure," literally "hidden treasure"), from PIE root *(s)keu- "to cover, conceal" (see hide (n.1)).
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hoard
v.
Old English hordian, cognate with Old High German gihurten, German gehorden, Gothic huzdjan, from the root of hoard (n.). Related: Hoarded; hoarding.
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