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[ US /ˈhɔɹd/ ]
[ UK /hˈɔːd/ ]
VERB
  1. save up as for future use
  2. get or gather together
    I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife
    She rolled up a small fortune
    She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis
NOUN
  1. a secret store of valuables or money

How To Use hoard In A Sentence

  • Since corporate America is more interested in hoarding than rehiring, the New Poor are going to be around for awhile. Mark Olmsted: No Pizza, No Peace: The New Poor and the Coming Blowback
  • And he had hoped to avoid all this; or rather to hoard this seeing for one final gulp from the mailboat rail. At Swim, Two Boys
  • They also come across a cryptogram, which is rather difficult to solve, but which eventually they manage to decypher, and which leads them to the treasure hoarded by the pirate, who by that time has met his end. Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess
  • Photographs of Ayesha were appearing in all the papers, and the pilgrims even passed advertising hoardings on which the lepidopteral beauty had been painted three times as large as life, beside slogans reading _Our cloths also are as delicate as a butterfly's wing_, or suchlike. The Satanic Verses
  • It is the most highly capitalized company in the software business and has a huge cash hoard.
  • Last season finds included a hoard of four late bronze age socketed axes and the new art.
  • I've seen the slogan 'Enjoy Responsibly' all over the Emirate's hoardings but my local off-licence haven't heard of it. Arsenal v Shakhtar Donetsk – as it happened
  • People buy and hoard gold in times of uncertainty, economic and political. Times, Sunday Times
  • The avid hoarder is packing up her entire collection of 1,250 lamps and taking them with her.
  • Yes, hoarding is often associated with Paranoid Schizophrenia. Of Shoes And Ships And Sealing Wax And Hoarding Stuff And Things | Her Bad Mother
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