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词汇 hoarder
释义 hoarder
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈhɔː.dər/ us /ˈhɔːr.dɚ/
someone who collects large amounts of something and keeps it for themselves, often in a secret place: 囤积(某物)的人
Senior officials blame hoarders for the food shortage.高级官员指责囤积的人造成了粮食短缺。
someone who suffers from a mental condition that makes them want to keep a large number of things that are not needed or have no value: 囤积症患者
He was one of those hoarders who can't throw anything away.他是那种喜欢囤积东西的人,什么都不扔。
compulsive hoarderI soon realized the woman was a compulsive hoarder.我很快意识到这个女人是一个强迫性囤积症患者。
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Food hoarders were threatened with long prison sentences.
The whole family were hoarders who kept everything.
Many hoarders are very bright, articulate people.
Public resources for helping hoarders are extremely limited.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Keeping and storing things
appropriate
aside
bank
bogart
buffer
capacitance
cling
dump
keep (something/someone) back
kept
lay something aside
lay something down
lay something in
lodge
standby
stash
stockpile
stockpiling
storage
trap

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Mental illnesses

hoarder | Business English


hoarder
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈhɔːdər/us
ECONOMICS, FINANCE
a person or organization that collects a lot of money or objects, sometimes secretly:
hoarders of gold and silver

Examples of hoarder


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But not being a hoarder, he spent his cash as fast as he earned it.
A model of caching depth: implications for scatter hoarders and plant dispersal.
There are risks here, since it assumes a break away from so much of past museums' roles as hoarders of whatever was on offer.
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.
It has been widely said that manufacturers are as great hoarders of labour as the service industries.
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We have heard of the producer-hoarders, but the thing is ridiculous.
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Thirdly, it is clear, as the residuary bodies sort out their property portfolios, that the abolished councils were hoarders of property on a grand scale.
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The land registers of publicly owned, unused and underused land were established to bring pressure to bear on those land hoarders.
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We all know that the local authorities are the biggest hoarders of land.
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First, there is the hoarder; secondly, the profiteer; and thirdly, the guarantee of supplies in congested districts, particularly among the poor.
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In my experience local authorities have all sorts of justifiable and parochial considerations for being land hoarders.
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They are not hoarders but are bodies doing their best to spend every penny they can for the advancement of learning.
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Is it true that the cultivator is not the real hoarder?
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She was discovered to be a hoarder.
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We are conscious of the fact that many public bodies are land hoarders and are not pressed to bring that land back on to the market.
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