hoard
囤积,贮藏,囤积物,囤积居奇
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Definitions
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- : a supply or accumulation that is hidden or carefully guarded for preservation, future use, etc.: a vast hoard of silver.
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- : to accumulate for preservation, future use, etc., in a hidden or carefully guarded place: to hoard food during a shortage.
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- : to accumulate money, food, or the like, in a hidden or carefully guarded place for preservation, future use, etc.
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In most years, Scottish museums have intervened in around 150 cases this way, with each case representing anything from a single coin to a hoard of hundreds of artifacts.
Slowly, they removed soil, pebbles, and fist-sized stones a fraction of an inch at a time, revealing the outline of the hoard.
Worried that the tents and daily work would attract the wrong kind of attention from locals, he bought a tent and sleeping bag and slept next to the hoard every night.
First of all, is to have some kind of legal mechanism of getting that private data hoards into a data common.
That I hoard medication and go to sleep each night on a big pile of Zithromax?
JML: Attractive celebrities are usually followed by a hoard of women.
And by the end of the war he had managed to hoard at least 1,400 hugely valuable works for himself.
Apple, “a pioneer in tactics to avoid taxes,” has kept much of its cash hoard abroad, out of reach of Uncle Sam.
When would you rather hoard money instead of lending it out?
That hoard up silver and gold, wherein men trust, and there is no end of their getting?
If I take no money for the money that I lend, how shall I then increase my hoard?
They are no wiser than the savages, who hide and their little heaps of cowrie-shells.