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(hɔːʳd)
Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular presenttense hoards, present participle hoarding, past tense, past participle hoarded
1. verb
If you hoard things such as food or money, you save or store them, often in secret, because they are valuable or important to you.
They've begun to hoard food and gasoline and save their money. [VERB noun]
Consumers did not spend and create jobs; they hoarded. [VERB]
The tea was sweetened with a hoarded tin of condensed milk. [VERB-ed]
Synonyms: save, store, collect, gather More Synonyms of hoard
hoarderWord forms: plural hoarders countable noun
Most hoarders have favorite hiding places.
Synonyms: saver, miser, collector, squirrel [informal] More Synonyms of hoard
2. countable noun
A hoard is a store of things that you have saved and that are valuable or important to youor you do not want other people to have.
The case involves a hoard of silver and jewels valued at up to $40m. [+ of]
Synonyms: store, fund, supply, reserve More Synonyms of hoard

hoard in British English

(hɔːd)
noun
1. 
an accumulated store hidden away for future use
2. 
a cache of ancient coins, treasure, etc
verb
3. 
to gather or accumulate (a hoard)
▶ USAGE Hoard is sometimes wrongly written where horde is meant: hordes (not hoards) of tourists
Derived forms
hoarder (ˈhoarder)
noun
Word origin
Old English hord; related to Old Norse hodd, Gothic huzd, German Hort, Swedish hydda hut

hoard in American English

(hɔrd)
noun
1. 
a supply stored up and hidden or kept in reserve
verb intransitive
2. 
to get and store away money, goods, etc.
verb transitive
3. 
to accumulate and hide or keep in reserve
Derived forms
hoarder (ˈhoarder)
noun
hoarding (ˈhoarding)
noun
Word origin
ME hord < OE, akin to Ger hort, Goth huzd < IE *keus- < base *(s)keu-, to cover, conceal > hide1, Gr skylos, animal's skin

Examples of 'hoard' in a sentence
hoard

German companies, in common with others around the world, have been hoarding cash rather than investing it in productive activities.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
German companies, in common with others around the world, have been hoarding cashrather than investing it in productive activities.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Death by firing squad to those who hoard food.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
He had devoted his life to hoarding money.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
He may not have sat gloating in some gloomy back room over his great hoard of treasures.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Those who can are keen to hoard their cash.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Yesterday that lending came to a virtual halt as nervous banks hoarded cash.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Banks claim regulators are forcing them to hoard money.
The Sun (2008)
They can pay for the takeover using cash they have hoarded offshore.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Those qualities would be handy now as the banks continue to hoard cash rather than lend it.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The credit crunch has encouraged companies to hoard cash and delay investments.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
This has apparently led to some banks hoarding euros and has squeezed the currency higher.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Nor is this an investment for those who wish to hoard cash.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Libor rocketed during the credit crunch as banks hoarded cash.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
That measure was aimed at pushing banks to take the risks of lending the money rather than hoard it.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The move was meant to goose the economy back into action by forcing people to stop hoarding what they had.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
 People buy and hoard gold in times of uncertainty, economic and political.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
As food prices soar people hoard, which raises the prices further.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Why hoard your money until the need has passed, only to hand it over in death duties?
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
A coroner will decide if the hoard qualifies as treasure trove.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The hazy legal situation has forced vendors to hoard large amounts of cash, making them popular targets for burglars.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
There's no treasure hoard here.
Kerr, Katharine A Time of War (1993)
These talks are about freeing up trade in food, just as some nations begin to hoard food in the expectation of shortages.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
A secret hoard isn't there.
The Sun (2011)

In other languages
hoard

British English: hoard VERB
If you hoard things such as food or money, you save or store them.
They've begun to hoard food and petrol and save their money.
  • American English: hoard
  • Brazilian Portuguese: acumular
  • Chinese: 贮藏
  • European Spanish: acumular
  • French: stocker
  • German: horten
  • Italian: accumulare
  • Japanese: ため込む
  • Korean: 모아 두다
  • European Portuguese: acumular
  • Latin American Spanish: acumular

Chinese translation of 'hoard'

hoard

(hɔːd)

n (c)

  1. [of food, money, treasure] 秘(祕)藏物 (mìcángwù) (笔, bǐ)

vt

  1. [food, money, treasure] 储(儲)藏 (chǔcáng)

vi

  1. 积(積)聚 (jījù)
(verb) 
Definition
to save or store (money, food, etc.)
They've begun to hoard food and gasoline.
Synonyms
save
I thought we were saving money for a holiday.
store
storing away cash that will come in useful later on
collect
Two young girls were collecting firewood.
gather
She started gathering up her things.
treasure
accumulate
Lead can accumulate in the body until toxic levels are reached.
garner
His priceless collection of Chinese art was garnered over three decades.
amass
We didn't enquire as to how she had amassed her fortune.
stockpile
People are stockpiling food for the coming winter.
buy up
put away
hive
cache
lay up
put by
stash away (informal)
(noun) 
Definition
a store of money, food, etc., hidden away for future use
a hoard of silver and jewels
Synonyms
store
I handed over my store of chocolate biscuits.
fund
He has an extraordinary fund of energy.
supply
The brain requires a constant supply of oxygen.
reserve
The country's reserves of petrol are running very low.
mass
On the desk is a mass of books and papers.
pile
a pile of books
heap
a heap of bricks
fall-back
accumulation
accumulations of dirt
stockpile
stockpiles of chemical weapons
stash
A large stash of counterfeit notes had been found aboard the yacht.
cache
A cache of weapons and explosives was found by the police.
treasure-trove

Additional synonyms

in the sense of accumulate
Definition
to gather together in an increasing quantity
Lead can accumulate in the body until toxic levels are reached.
Synonyms
build up,
increase,
grow,
be stored,
collect,
gather,
pile up,
amass,
stockpile,
hoard,
accrue,
cumulate
in the sense of accumulation
Definition
something that has been collected
accumulations of dirt
Synonyms
collection,
increase,
stock,
store,
mass,
build-up,
pile,
stack,
heap,
rick,
stockpile,
hoard
in the sense of amass
Definition
to accumulate or collect
We didn't enquire as to how she had amassed her fortune.
Synonyms
collect,
gather,
assemble,
compile,
accumulate,
aggregate,
pile up,
garner,
hoard,
scrape together,
rake up,
heap up

Nearby words of
hoard

  • hitherto
  • hive
  • hive off
  • hoard
  • hoarder
  • hoarse
  • hoarseness

Synonyms of 'hoard'

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