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单词 hoard
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hoard

noun
/hɔːd/
/hɔːrd/
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  1. hoard (of something) a collection of money, food, valuable objects, etc., especially one that somebody keeps in a secret place so that other people will not find or steal it
    • They dug up a hoard of Roman coins.
    Extra Examples
    • He controls a cash hoard of some $1 billion.
    • a vast hoard of treasure
    • her secret hoard of food
    • one of the biggest hoards of Roman coins ever found
    • Police have uncovered a hoard of stolen goods which may help to trace the fugitives.
    Topics Moneyc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • big
    • large
    • major
    • …
    preposition
    • in hoards
    • hoard of
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    Word OriginOld English hord (noun), hordian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to German Hort (noun), horten (verb).

hoard

verb
/hɔːd/
/hɔːrd/
 [intransitive, transitive]
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they hoard
/hɔːd/
/hɔːrd/
he / she / it hoards
/hɔːdz/
/hɔːrdz/
past simple hoarded
/ˈhɔːdɪd/
/ˈhɔːrdɪd/
past participle hoarded
/ˈhɔːdɪd/
/ˈhɔːrdɪd/
-ing form hoarding
/ˈhɔːdɪŋ/
/ˈhɔːrdɪŋ/
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  1. hoard (something) to collect and keep large amounts of food, money, etc., often secretly
    • The prisoners used to hoard scraps of food in secret places.
    Extra Examples
    • He had the habit of hoarding newspaper cuttings that interested him.
    • Up to 80 per cent of the grain was hoarded by farms to barter for machinery.
    Topics Moneyc1
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryHoard is used with these nouns as the object:
    • money
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    Word OriginOld English hord (noun), hordian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to German Hort (noun), horten (verb).
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