- present participle of hoard.
hoarding
Example Sentences
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He argues speculation and hoarding, rather than a genuine shortage, are driving prices higher.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Really, what drives fans nuts is L.A.’s oligarch-style hoarding: its presumptuous seizing of what everyone needs, even when they don’t need it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
While you don’t have any control over point devaluation, you can protect yourself by spending your points and not hoarding them.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
That is to keep teams from hoarding revenue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Even Dinorah added some guava paste she’d been hoarding.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
