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hoarding

/hawr-ding/US // ˈhɔr dɪŋ //UK // (ˈhɔːdɪŋ) //

囤积,囤积居奇,囤积物,囤货

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 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.
    • : hoardings, things that are hoarded.

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Examples

  • The pandemic has served to highlight the two Americas King spoke of, but the pandemic has also exacerbated the gap, largely through something sociologists call “opportunity hoarding” — or the accumulation of resources at the exclusion of others.

  • “This inequity is due to hoarding of doses by rich nations.”

  • The mask debacle was about officials trying to prevent the hoarding of N95s when hospitals needed them.

  • The policy will hopefully prevent hoarding and help more people get their first and second doses on time.

  • This hoarding by rich countries means that people in the poorest countries will be waiting many, many months, and likely years, before they can get a Covid-19 vaccine dose.

  • Infomania, they say, is more subtly crippling than physical hoarding.

  • Panicked, I reached out to hoarding experts, who often refer to any kind of obsessive digital collecting as “infomania.”

  • Perhaps I should be more understanding, now that my own hoarding tendencies are flaring up.

  • But in the Digital Age, we're at risk of a new type of hoarding that is equally problematic.

  • The financial system is awash with money, yet the Federal Reserve accuses both consumers and institutions of hoarding it.

  • She could not see the word Putney posted on a hoarding without a stirring of the spirit and a beating of the heart.

  • When the vernal or autumnal storms delay to break, they are gathering strength; hoarding up their fury for more sure destruction.

  • And until the very eve of victory, we treated Handitch not so much as a battlefield as a hoarding.

  • It looks out upon you—the word again, not the quality—from every hoarding.

  • Then, lest he become a miser hoarding gold and spending it not, Sweep at last bethought him of a kindly plan.