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hoard

a stash; to store away: In wartime people have a tendency to hoard supplies.

Not to be confused with:

horde – a wandering group or a swarm: A horde of mosquitoes invaded the camp.

hoard

(hôrd)

1. A supply or store of something held or hidden for future use.

2. A collection or supply, as of memories or information, that one keeps to oneself for future use.

v. hoard·ed, hoard·ing, hoards

v.tr.

1. To accumulate a hoard of: hoarded his money in a box under the bed.

2. To accumulate as much of (something) as one can, as when fearing a shortage.

3. To keep hidden or private: "the impulse to hoard the raw material of experience and turn it into art" (Bernard Cooper).

v.intr.

To gather or accumulate a hoard.

[Middle English hord, from Old English; see (s)keu- in Indo-European roots.]

hoard′er n.

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hoard

(hɔːd)

1. an accumulated store hidden away for future use

2. a cache of ancient coins, treasure, etc

to gather or accumulate (a hoard)

[Old English hord; related to Old Norse hodd, Gothic huzd, German Hort, Swedish hydda hut]

ˈhoarder n

Usage: Hoard is sometimes wrongly written where horde is meant: hordes (not hoards) of tourists

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hoard

(hɔrd, hoʊrd)
n.

1. a supply or accumulation hidden or carefully guarded for preservation or future use: a hoard of money; a hoard of food.

v.t.

2. to accumulate a hoard of.

v.i.

3. to accumulate a hoard.

[before 900; Middle English hord(e), Old English hord, c. Old High German hort, Old Norse hodd, Gothic huzd treasure; akin to hide¹, hide²]

hoard′er, n.

Hoard

a stock or store; something accumulated.

Examples: hoard of human bliss, 1764; of coins, 1851; of facts, 1847; of grace, 1805; of money; of nuts; of provisions; of savings; of secrets.

hoard

Past participle: hoarded
Gerund: hoarding

Imperative
hoard
hoard

Present
I hoard
you hoard
he/she/it hoards
we hoard
you hoard
they hoard

Preterite
I hoarded
you hoarded
he/she/it hoarded
we hoarded
you hoarded
they hoarded

Present Continuous
I am hoarding
you are hoarding
he/she/it is hoarding
we are hoarding
you are hoarding
they are hoarding

Present Perfect
I have hoarded
you have hoarded
he/she/it has hoarded
we have hoarded
you have hoarded
they have hoarded

Past Continuous
I was hoarding
you were hoarding
he/she/it was hoarding
we were hoarding
you were hoarding
they were hoarding

Past Perfect
I had hoarded
you had hoarded
he/she/it had hoarded
we had hoarded
you had hoarded
they had hoarded

Future
I will hoard
you will hoard
he/she/it will hoard
we will hoard
you will hoard
they will hoard

Future Perfect
I will have hoarded
you will have hoarded
he/she/it will have hoarded
we will have hoarded
you will have hoarded
they will have hoarded

Future Continuous
I will be hoarding
you will be hoarding
he/she/it will be hoarding
we will be hoarding
you will be hoarding
they will be hoarding

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been hoarding
you have been hoarding
he/she/it has been hoarding
we have been hoarding
you have been hoarding
they have been hoarding

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been hoarding
you will have been hoarding
he/she/it will have been hoarding
we will have been hoarding
you will have been hoarding
they will have been hoarding

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been hoarding
you had been hoarding
he/she/it had been hoarding
we had been hoarding
you had been hoarding
they had been hoarding

Conditional
I would hoard
you would hoard
he/she/it would hoard
we would hoard
you would hoard
they would hoard

Past Conditional
I would have hoarded
you would have hoarded
he/she/it would have hoarded
we would have hoarded
you would have hoarded
they would have hoarded

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Noun	1.	hoard - a secret store of valuables or money stash, cache fund, store, stock - a supply of something available for future use; "he brought back a large store of Cuban cigars"
Verb	1.	hoard - save up as for future use cache, hive up, lay away, squirrel away, stash lay aside, save up, save - accumulate money for future use; "He saves half his salary"
	2.	hoard - get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune" accumulate, collect, compile, amass, roll up, pile up run up - pile up (debts or scores) corral - collect or gather; "corralling votes for an election" collect, pull in - get or bring together; "accumulate evidence" scrape up, scrape, scratch, come up - gather (money or other resources) together over time; "She had scraped together enough money for college"; "they scratched a meager living" chunk, lump - put together indiscriminately; "lump together all the applicants" bale - make into a bale; "bale hay" catch - take in and retain; "We have a big barrel to catch the rainwater" fund - accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability; "fund a medical care plan" fund - place or store up in a fund for accumulation salt away, stack away, stash away, store, hive away, lay in, put in - keep or lay aside for future use; "store grain for the winter"; "The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat"

hoard

verb

1. save, store, collect, gather, treasure, accumulate, garner, amass, stockpile, buy up, put away, hive, cache, lay up, put by, stash away (informal) They've begun to hoard food and gasoline.

noun

1. store, fund, supply, reserve, mass, pile, heap, fall-back, accumulation, stockpile, stash, cache, treasure-trove a hoard of silver and jewels

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hoard

noun

A supply stored or hidden for future use:

backlog, cache, inventory, nest egg, reserve, reservoir, stock, stockpile, store, treasure.

Slang: stash.

verb

To store up (supplies or money), usually well beyond one's needs:

squirrel (away), stockpile, treasure.

Slang: stash.

Translations

Spanish / Español

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amontonar

hoard

[hɔːd]

A. N (= treasure) → tesoro m; (= stockpile) → provisión f
hoards of money → montones mpl de dinero

B. VT

1. (also to hoard up) (= accumulate) → amontonar, acumular; [+ money] → atesorar

2. (= keep) → guardar

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hoard

(hoːd) noun

a (sometimes hidden) store (of treasure, food etc). When she was supposed to be on a diet she secretly kept a hoard of potato crisps in a cupboard.provisión

verb

to store up or keep large quantities of (something), often in secret. His mother told him to stop hoarding old newspapers.amontonar, guardar, almacenar

ˈhoarder noun

acaparador, acumulador

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No, I never believed myself to be a hoarder; in fact, I knew only too well that I was a spendthrift.

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The envious man beholds his neighbours' honours even in the sky; to the money- hoarder, and the mass of worldly folk, the whole great universe above glitters with sterling coin--fresh from the mint--stamped with the sovereign's head--coming always between them and heaven, turn where they may.

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One third of it thou canst well spare to us for thy entertainment and that of thy train, for thou art very rich; one third of it thou canst better spare for charity, for, Bishop, I hear that thou art a hard master to those beneath thee and a close hoarder of gains that thou couldst better and with more credit to thyself give to charity than spend upon thy own likings."

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Pakistan Fahad Ishaq Sangi urged the administration to take stern action against hoarders to counter the artificial price hike.

Traders body demands stern action against hoarders

GUJRANWALA -- Commissioner Waqas Ali Mehmood said that indiscriminate action should be initiated against the hoarders and profiteers.

Admin for stern action against hoarders, profiteers

MULTAN -- Punjab government has decided to take action against profiteers and hoarders across the province.

Crackdown against profiteers ordered

The CM directed that a massive crackdown against hoarders be initiated and made it clear that the people will not be left at the mercy of those responsible for creating an artificial price hike.

Govt takes microscope to price control steps

The Chief Minister directed to initiate a massive crackdown against the hoarders and made it clear that people will not be left at the mercy of those responsible for creating artificial price hike.

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Farmers say that hoarders had stocked the wheat husk to sell it at higher prices in winter.

Four arrested for hoarding sugar, wheat

KASUR -- District administration has started a grand operation against profiteers and hoarders in the city and registered four cases against profiteers while 62 were fined on the spot.

Operation against profiteers, hoarders kicks off in city

They demanded from government to take steps against hoarders and whole sellers as if the retailer receives consumer items from them at high rates then it was automatically that he would sell same to consumers with his margin of profit.