hoard

hoard
Noun: An accumulation of savings. A supply held in reserve. Verb: To accumulate by way of having a reserve. As defined by the Lever Act which was a war measure of Congress passed in 1917 and amended in 1919, "necessaries shall be deemed to be hoarded when withheld, whether by possession or under any contract or arrangement, from the market by any person for the purpose of unreasonably increasing or diminishing the price." United States v Cohen Grocery Co. 255 US 81, 65 L Ed 516, 41 S Ct 298, 14 ALR 1045, 1052.

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  • Hoard — (engl. für Depotfund) ist der Name folgender Personen: Leroy Hoard (* 1968), US amerikanischer Footballspieler Charles B. Hoard (1805 1886), US amerikanischer Politiker William D. Hoard (1836 1918), US amerikanischer Politiker Orte: Hoard (Texas) …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Hoard — Hoard, n. [OE. hord, AS. hord; akin to OS. hord, G. hort, Icel. hodd, Goth. huzd; prob. from the root of E. hide to conceal, and of L. custos guard, E. custody. See {Hide} to conceal.] A store, stock, or quantity of anything accumulated or laid… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Hoard — Hoard, v. i. To lay up a store or hoard, as of money. [1913 Webster] To hoard for those whom he did breed. Spenser. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Hoard — Hoard, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hoarded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Hoarding}.] [AS. hordian.] 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. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • hoard´er — hoard «hrd, hohrd», verb, noun. –v.t. to save and store away: »The squirrel hoarded nuts for the winter. The miser hoarded his money. SYNONYM(S): treasure, amass, accumulate. –v.i. to save and store away money, goods, etc. –n. what is saved and… …   Useful english dictionary

  • Hoard — Hoard, n. See {Hoarding}, 2. Smart. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • hoard — I noun accumulation, acervus, aggregation, amassment, cache, collection, copia, cumulation, fund, heap, mass, repository, reserves, riches, saving, stack, stock, stockpile, store, supply, treasure II verb accrue, accumulate, acquire, agglomerate …   Law dictionary

  • hoard — hoard, horde A hoard is a large stock or store of money or accumulated objects (in archaeology, for example); a horde is a large collection of people or animals, and is used in the singular or plural, often disparagingly: • A horde of football… …   Modern English usage

  • hoard — [n] stockpile abundance, accumulation, agglomeration, aggregation, amassment, backlog, cache, collection, conglomeration, cumulation, fund, garner, heap, inventory, mass, nest egg*, pile, reserve, reservoir, riches, stock, store, supply, treasure …   New thesaurus

  • Hoard — (engl., spr. hōrd), Schatz (Hort); Hoards, Vorräte, insbes. im englischen Bankwesen die Summen von Edelmetall, die sich an der Bank anhäufen, ohne augenblicklich geschäftliche Verwendung zu finden …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • hoard — vb amass, *accumulate Analogous words: collect, assemble, *gather: pile, *heap, stack, mass Contrasted words: dissipate, disperse, *scatter: *distribute, divide, dispense …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

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