HOARD


Meaning of HOARD in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ hɔ:(r)d ]

( hoards, hoarding, hoarded)

1.

If you hoard things such as food or money, you save or store them, often in secret, because they are valuable or important to you.

They’ve begun to hoard food and gasoline and save their money...

Consumers did not spend and create jobs; they hoarded...

VERB : V n , V

• hoard‧er

(hoarders)

Most hoarders have favorite hiding places.

N-COUNT

2.

A hoard is a store of things that you have saved and that are valuable or important to you or you do not want other people to have.

The case involves a hoard of silver and jewels valued at up to $40m.

= cache

N-COUNT : oft N of n

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