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Definition of hoarding :
1. A fence, barrier, or cover, inclosing, surrounding, or concealing something.
2. A screen of boards inclosing a house and materials while builders are at work.
3. of Hoard
Synonyms:
advertisement, banner ad, billboard, classified ad, banner, advert, ad, circular, advertorial, bumper sticker
avaricious (part of speech: adjective)
grasping, avaricious, money-grubbing, mercenary, possessive, monopolistic, usurious, rapacious, cadging, greedy, selfish, venal, acquisitive, miserly, sordid
storing (part of speech: verb)
saving, caching, stockpiling, storing, banking, depositing, archiving, accumulating
Usage examples:
- " Very likely; but you amuse yourself with hoarding up your money, and shew yourself to be a miser, and a miser is not less contemptible than a man in love. - "The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons", Jacques Casanova de Seingalt.
- Only I'd give all the money I have been so long hoarding for the wedding- day only to be sure- Then he is not to blame about anything? - "Norston's Rest", Ann S. Stephens.
- We have enormous volumes of idle money in the banks and in hoarding. - "Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present", Various.