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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
Example sentences :
  • 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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