hoarding
1 Americannoun
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the act of a person or animal that hoards.
Depression-era hoarding, when gold coins disappeared from circulation;
the hoarding of nuts by chipmunks.
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hoardings, things that are hoarded.
noun
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a temporary fence enclosing a construction site.
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British. a billboard.
noun
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Also called (esp US and Canadian): billboard. a large board used for displaying advertising posters, as by a road
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a temporary wooden fence erected round a building or demolition site
Etymology
Origin of hoarding1
First recorded in 1585–95; hoard + -ing 1
Origin of hoarding2
First recorded in 1815–25; obsolete hoard (from Old French hourd(e) “palisade made of hurdles,” from Germanic; compare German Hürde “hurdle”) + -ing 1
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Jordan Henderson has not been in the England set-up since the World Cup, where he fell over an advertising hoarding following England's win over Mexico in the Azteca Stadium and broke his arm.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
Shoppers are hoarding 75-pound boxes of oversize bones that hardly fit in their car, or paying extortionate resale prices after stores sell out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
But as anyone who has lived in the country knows, families aren’t hoarding cash out of some cultural quirk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
This week, some supermarkets in Tehran temporarily ran out of cooking oil and rice as shoppers scooped them for hoarding, residents said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Maybe he doesn't have full-blown disposophobia, which is hoarding, but he's on the same playing field.
From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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