Definition of hoard
:a supply or fund stored up and often hidden away
- a hoard of cash
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a squirrel's hoard of nuts
keeps a hoard of empty yogurt containers in his basement workshop for storing whatnots
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From rats and giant spiders, to hoards of cult-like clowns moving in unison, AHS: Cult is aiming to shock and repulse.
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As well as 'acca's', Chelsea may well be on the way to duffing up a number of fantasy football teams too - queue the hoards of people who will be swapping Alvaro Morata for Vokes later on, then.
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So many of us hoard and collect points for years in order to drop them on the good stuff.
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Companies in Japan, the United States and Europe are sitting on hoards of cash, doling out the money to shareholders rather than investing in new buildings, equipment or innovative products.
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Companies in Japan, the United States and Europe are sitting on hoards of cash, doling out the money to shareholders rather than investing in new buildings, equipment or innovative products.
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In the summer months, the hubbub of downtown Manhattan’s streets tapers as hoards of locals head to the Hamptons and the Catskills.
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Companies in Japan, the United States and Europe are sitting on hoards of cash, doling out the money to shareholders rather than investing in new buildings, equipment or innovative products.
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While the penalty will barely make a dent in its $90 billion cash hoard, Google faces the prospect of less ad revenue and a regulatory backlash targeting other services from maps to restaurant reviews as well as the threat of even more penalties.
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Origin and Etymology of hoard
Middle English hord, from Old English; akin to Goth huzd treasure, Old English hȳdan to hide
hoard Synonyms
Synonyms
cache, stash, stockpile, storeRelated Words
coffers, deposit, funds, nest egg, savings, sinking fund, treasure; inventory, pool, reserve, reservoir, stock; provisions, resources; accumulation, assemblage, collection, gathering, harvest; repertoryDefinition of hoard
transitive verb
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:to collect and often hide away a supply of :to accumulate a hoard (see 1hoard) of
- hoarding food
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:to keep (something, such as one's thoughts) to oneself
- she hoarded her intention
- —Virginia Woolf
- the people outside disperse their affections, you hoard yours, you nurse them into intensity
- —Joseph Conrad
intransitive verb
:to collect and often hide away a supply of something :to accumulate a hoard (see 1hoard)
- a tendency to hoard
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hoarder
nounExamples of hoard in a Sentence
he's been hoarding empty yogurt containers all winter, with the intention of using them to start seedlings in the spring
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After years of hoarding his assets to a comical degree, Danny Ainge’s decision to pull the trigger on the Irving trade is somewhat baffling.
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By hoarding jobs and educational resources over centuries, white U.S. families remain richer on average than black families.
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Traders will stop hoarding it, and killers will stop the slaughter.
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Company executives also had two messages for gamers: one, that game developers had largely completed their code optimizations for Ryzen, and two, that miners who hoarded graphics cards wouldn't be around forever.
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The second factor is that power, once coveted and hoarded, is cheap and easily available, particularly in an era in which balls are flying off the bat at unprecedented rates.
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Its inherent randomness stifles dominance, and hoarding stars is impractical when there's a 40-man roster to stock and the best players only have four or five chances to impact any given game.
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Its best course of action in the wake of his departure to the NFL this off-season is to hoard as many promising prospects at his position as possible.
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John Clark/Gaston Gazette More than two months after Lee ordered both sides to abide by state law and share evidence in the case, the debate over who’s hoarding what still pulsed through the hearing.
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Origin and Etymology of hoard
hoard Synonyms
Synonyms
cache, lay away, lay by, lay in, lay up, put by, salt away, squirrel (away), stash, stockpile, store, stow, treasure, set asideRelated Words
accumulate, acquire, amass, assemble, collect, concentrate, garner, gather, pick up, round up, scrape (together); heap, pile, stack; conserve, husband, preserve; bank, coffer, deposit, hold, keep, reserve, retain, save, set by, stock, withhold; bury, conceal, ensconce, secreteNear Antonyms
cast, discard, ditch, dump, fling (off or away), jettison, throw away, throw out, unload; consume, squander, use up, waste; hand out, hand over, relinquish, surrender; blow, dissipate, fritter (away), lavish, misspend, run through, spend; deplete, exhaust, expend, impoverish; dispel, disperse, dissipate, scatterHOARD Defined for English Language Learners
hoard
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Definition of hoard for English Language Learners
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: to collect and hide a large amount of (something valuable)
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