hoardverb [ T ]
uk/hɔːd/us/hɔːrd/to collect large amounts of something and keep it in a safe, often secret, place:
During the siege people began hoarding food and supplies.
There would be enough food on a daily basis if people were not hoarding it.
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Keeping and storing things
- appropriate
- aside
- bank
- capture
- cling
- cling (on) to sth
- earmark
- lay
- maintain
- pack sth away
- put sth away
- repository
- reserve
- reserved
- storage
- store
- store sth up
- stow
- stow (sth) away
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hoarder
noun [ C ] uk/ˈhɔː.dər/us/ˈhɔːr.dɚ/
hoardnoun [ C ]
uk/hɔːd/us/hɔːrd/a large amount of something that someone has saved and hidden:
We found a huge hoard of tinned food in the basement.
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Masses and large amounts of things
- accumulation
- an embarrassment of riches idiom
- any number of things idiom
- backlog
- battery
- boatload
- bolus
- clot
- deluge
- fund
- lashing
- panoply
- plethora
- predominance
- preponderance
- profusion
- sheet
- shower
- thousand
- tidal wave
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