Definitions for hoarding

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hoarding hoard·ing

Spelling: [hawr-ding, hohr-]

IPA: /ˈhɔr dɪŋ, ˈhoʊr-/

Hoarding is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 343 anagrams from letters in hoarding (adghinor).

Definitions for hoarding

noun

1. the act of a person who hoards.
2. hoardings, things that are hoarded.
3. a temporary fence enclosing a construction site.
4. British. a billboard.
5. a supply or accumulation that is hidden or carefully guarded for preservation, future use, etc.:

verb (used with object)

1. to accumulate for preservation, future use, etc., in a hidden or carefully guarded place:

verb (used without object)

1. to accumulate money, food, or the like, in a hidden or carefully guarded place for preservation, future use, etc.

Origin of hoarding

First recorded in 1585-95; hoard + -ing¹

Examples for hoarding

The financial system is awash with money, yet the Federal Reserve accuses both consumers and institutions of hoarding it.

hoarding has always conjured nightmare scenarios of impassible rooms filled to the brim.

Perhaps I should be more understanding, now that my own hoarding tendencies are flaring up.

The Pasha also seems perfectly indifferent to hoarding money.

She had been hoarding it up for that secret hour, and now she was alone with it, and all the world was still.

Thousands of millions of tons of it, while we've been hoarding it by grams.

"hoarding," a voice answered, and others supplied the few details.

Panicked, I reached out to hoarding experts, who often refer to any kind of obsessive digital collecting as “infomania.”

But in the Digital Age, we're at risk of a new type of hoarding that is equally problematic.

Nearly every other omnibus carried the legend of The Plague-Spot; every hoarding had it.