Definition of Hoard

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Definition of Hoard

Hoard

See Hoarding, 2.

A store, stock, or quantity of anything accumulated or laid up; a hidden supply; a treasure; as, a hoard of provisions; a hoard of money.

To collect and lay up; to amass and deposit in secret; to store secretly, or for the sake of keeping and accumulating; as, to hoard grain.

To lay up a store or hoard, as of money.

Related Definitions:

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Hoard Quotations

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
Lao Tzu

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
Will Durant

Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.
Kin Hubbard

At many points during our nation's history, there have been times - known in our history textbooks as "panics" - when adverse conditions affecting the financial and economic sectors of the country have caused individuals to hoard more than they need.
Jo Bonner

People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.
Laurence Sterne

Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.
Isaac Barrow

Half the ills we heard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them.
Barry Cornwall

Hoard Translations

hoard in German is horten, Vorrat
hoard in Hungarian is kincs
hoard in Italian is accaparrare
hoard in Latin is recondo
hoard in Spanish is acaparar

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