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- DictionaryHoard/hôrd/
noun
- 1. a stock or store of money or valued objects, typically one that is secret or carefully guarded: "he came back to rescue his little hoard of gold"
verb
- 1. amass (money or valued objects) and hide or store away: "thousands of antiques hoarded by a compulsive collector"
a large amount of something that someone has saved and hidden: hoard of We found a huge hoard of canned food in the basement. Synonyms. cache. stash. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. (Definition of hoard from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) hoard | Intermediate English. verb [ T ]
hoard. noun. /hɔːd/. /hɔːrd/. 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.
IPA guide. To hoard is to save something (or lots of things) for future use. Squirrels hoard nuts for the winter. Old ladies tend to hoard canned food and used plastic bags. People have been using the word hoard for both "to hide" and "treasure" for centuries; as both a verb and as a noun.
4 days ago · 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]
From Longman Business Dictionary hoard1 /hɔːdhɔːrd/ verb [ transitive] to collect and save large amounts of something in order to sell it later at a high price or because you think there might not be enough available in the future Banks must be discouraged from hoarding dollars.
to collect and store a large supply of something, often secretly: He hoarded antique books in the attic. Want to learn more? Improve your vocabulary with English Vocabulary in Use from Cambridge. Learn the words you need to communicate with confidence. hoard. noun [ C ] a large, secret supply or collection of something:
n. 1. A supply or store of something held or hidden for future use. 2. A collection or supply, as of memories or information, that one keeps to oneself for future use. v. hoard·ed, hoard·ing, hoards. v.tr. 1. To accumulate a hoard of: hoarded his money in a box under the bed. 2.
