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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Masses and large amounts of things
accumulation
any number of thingsidiom
armload
backlog
blood clot
flood
foam
inundation
lion
logjam
many
motherlode
pile
sight
stack
the lion's shareidiom
wave after/upon waveidiom
wedge
welter
wodge

hoard | American Dictionary

hoard
verb[ T ]
us/hɔrd, hoʊrd/
to collect a large supply of something, more than you need now, often because you think you will not be able to get it later:
Many people hoarded food in wartime.

hoard | Business English

hoard
verb[ I or T ]
uk /hɔːd/us
ECONOMICS, FINANCE
to collect a lot of money or objects, sometimes secretly:
A financial crisis can cause people to hoard.
When oil prices rise, the tendency to hoard gold also rises.
hoard
noun[ C ]
uk /hɔːd/us
ECONOMICS, FINANCE
a large amount of money or objects that someone has collected, sometimes secretly:
They found a hoard of dollar bills in the suspect's attic.
The company has a vast cash hoard that just keeps on growing.

Examples of hoard

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Similarly, a scholar s gathering of materials may also be viewed as hoarding items that predict future reward.
In animals, such foraging activity frequently involves hoarding gathering food, not for immediate consumption, but for future use.
Apart from hoarding, much gold and silver was transformed into jewelry, gold and silver wire, plates, vases, goblets, and the like.
Both are of great value and can be either hoarded or distributed.
An increase in hoarding activity would lead to acute shortages and thus to price increases.
In hoarding money there is no benefit, and being without benefit, it creates no satisfaction.
Rather, households often hoarded cowries, usually burying them for safe keeping.
Do not be a miser, hoarding your talents and abilities and knowledge, either among yourselves or in your dealings with your clients, patients or flock.
Firstly, the coin hoards listed in the literature were only the ones recorded in publications available to a particular author.
The regular occurrence of hoards with gold coins and torcs confirms the view that gold objects indeed played a role in the gift exchange between tribal leaders and their followers.
If one hoards and the other shares, the one who receives some of each medicine (the hoarder) will survive with 80% probability, but the other will surely die.
They responded to it by buying land and cattle, hoarding gold and providing mercantile forms of credit to producers that would repay in kind rather than in depreciated currency.
The first response to high childhood mortality has been termed the 'strategy of hoarding' living children, and the second has been labelled the 'strategy of replacing' dying children.
Mental containment, rather than being construed here as the wise accumulation or safekeeping of mental treasure, is now depicted as ungenerous hoarding that carries a risk of social harm.
Ye was accusing the government of hoarding money to the detriment of the private economy, so he was likely to exaggerate rather than minimize the holdings of the state's treasuries.
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