hoarding Definition

hoard
noun

1. A store of money, food or treasure, usually one hidden away for use in the future.

Thesaurus: accumulation, cache, reserve, reservoir, stockpile, store, fund, heap, mass, pile, profusion.

verb

tr & intr
hoarded, hoarding
1. To store or gather (food, money or treasure), often secretly, and especially for use in the future.

Thesaurus: save, gather, amass, cache, coffer, garner, husband, lay up, stash, stockpile, store; Antonym: spend, squander, use.

Derivative: hoarder
noun

Someone who hoards.
Thesaurus: collector, gatherer, magpie, miser, niggard, squirrel, pack rat.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon hord.

Info:

There is sometimes a spelling confusion between hoard and horde.

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hoarding
noun

1. A screen of light boards, especially round a building site.
2. A similar wooden surface for displaying advertisements, posters, etc. N Amer equivalent billboard.

Etymology: 19c: from French hourd palisade.