hoarding

¹

[hawr-ding]

noun

1. the act of a person or animal that hoards.

   Depression-era hoarding, when gold coins disappeared from circulation;

   the hoarding of nuts by chipmunks.

2. hoardings, things that are hoarded.

hoarding

²

[hawr-ding, hohr-]

noun

1. a temporary fence enclosing a construction site.

2. British.,  a billboard.

hoarding

/ ˈhɔːdɪŋ /

noun

1. Also called (esp US and Canadian): billboard. a large board used for displaying advertising posters, as by a road

2. a temporary wooden fence erected round a building or demolition site

Word History and Origins

Origin of hoarding¹

First recorded in 1585–95; hoard + -ing ¹

Origin of hoarding²

First recorded in 1815–25; obsolete hoard (from Old French hourd(e) “palisade made of hurdles,” from Germanic; compare German Hürde “hurdle”) + -ing ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of hoarding¹

C19: from C15 hoard fence, from Old French hourd palisade, of Germanic origin, related to Gothic haurds, Old Norse hurth door

Example Sentences

The practice of “labor hoarding” has reached its end.

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More recently, companies have abandoned their pandemic-era protocol of holding on to employees—known as labor hoarding—because it was so hard to find and hire workers.

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Ohio and Michigan managers worried that people hoarding their pennies, or bank runs on the copper coins, could make matters worse.

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But they have also been hesitant to cut the employees they already have, an example of what economists term “labor hoarding.”

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Nonetheless, as Berkshire has trended toward hoarding more cash, some have taken the move as a sign that Buffett doesn’t see great new ways to deploy capital in the current bull market.

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Related Words

• accretion 
• aggregation 
• buildup 
• growth 
• inflation 
• pile 
• quantity