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Synonyms for hoarding
Grammar : Verb |
Spell : hawr-ding, hohr- |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɔr dɪŋ, ˈhoʊr- |
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Définition of hoarding
Origin :- Old English hord "treasure, valuable stock or store," from Proto-Germanic *huzdam (cf. Old Saxon hord "treasure, hidden or inmost place," Old Norse hodd, German Hort, Gothic huzd "treasure," literally "hidden treasure"), from PIE root *(s)keu- "to cover, conceal" (see hide (n.1)).
- verb put away, accumulate
- She had been hoarding it up for that secret hour, and now she was alone with it, and all the world was still.
- Extract from : « The Eternal City » by Hall Caine
- The Pasha also seems perfectly indifferent to hoarding money.
- Extract from : « Journal of a Residence at Bagdad » by Anthony Groves
- Nearly every other omnibus carried the legend of The Plague-Spot; every hoarding had it.
- Extract from : « A Great Man » by Arnold Bennett
- Thousands of millions of tons of it, while we've been hoarding it by grams.
- Extract from : « Masters of Space » by Edward Elmer Smith
- "Hoarding," a voice answered, and others supplied the few details.
- Extract from : « Police Your Planet » by Lester del Rey
- Evidences of his influence seemed to leer at him from window and hoarding.
- Extract from : « The Orchard of Tears » by Sax Rohmer
- I speak not of the hoarding of the miser; that would be a waste of breath.
- Extract from : « Thoughts on Missions » by Sheldon Dibble
- His was a veritable fever for acquiring and hoarding, in the matter of science.
- Extract from : « Notre-Dame de Paris » by Victor Hugo
- So great was that difficulty that the practice of hoarding was common.
- Extract from : « The History of England from the Accession of James II. » by Thomas Babington Macaulay
- On the contrary, he was hoarding it all up, and for his own benefit.
- Extract from : « Adventures in Toyland » by Edith King Hall
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