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Antonyms for hoarder

Grammar : Noun
Spell : hawrd, hohrd
Phonetic Transcription : hɔrd, hoʊrd


Definition of hoarder

Origin :
  • Old English hordere "treasurer," from hoard (n.). As "one who hoards," c.1500, from hoard (v.).
  • As in miser : noun person who hoards money, possessions
  • As in skinflint : noun cheapskate
  • As in tightwad : noun miser
  • As in pack rat : noun someone that hoards objects
Example sentences :
  • There have been those who have condemned the hoarder in the roundest of terms.
  • Extract from : « The Iron Ration » by George Abel Schreiner
  • No purchasers at execution sales but the creditor, or some hoarder of money.
  • Extract from : « Thirty Years' View (Vol. I of 2) » by Thomas Hart Benton
  • But he now became what a young and gay Irishman seldom is--a hoarder of his earnings.
  • Extract from : « Bits of Blarney » by R. Shelton Mackenzie
  • He was considered eccentric and "a hoarder up of English gold."
  • Extract from : « The Stronghold » by Miriam Haynie
  • Food hoarding is an offence and the food is commandeered and the hoarder punished.
  • Extract from : « Women and War Work » by Helen Fraser
  • All the time the hoarder stands with nose in the air, the picture of lofty indifference.
  • Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, June 20, 1917 » by Various
  • It was no new thing to me to know the Irish peasant in his character as a hoarder and a saver.
  • Extract from : « Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II (of II) » by Edmund Downey
  • Curtis is a hoarder, with an amazing capacity for heaping up that sort of information.
  • Extract from : « Behind the Mirrors » by Clinton W. Gilbert
  • This hoarder of dead bodies, with his stiff and almost heavy movements, is astonishingly quick at storing away wreckage.
  • Extract from : « The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles » by Jean Henri Fabre
  • Hoarder's apparatus for measuring the length of spark for Leyden jar and coil.
  • Extract from : « The Boy's Playbook of Science » by John Henry Pepper

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