Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A temporary wooden fence around a building or structure under construction or repair.
- n. Chiefly British A billboard.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of amassing or making a hoard.
- n. In medieval fortification, a covered structure of timber, either temporary or permanent, placed on top of the walls and towers of a fortress to afford increased facilities for defense. The hoarding projected beyond the face of the wall, in order that missiles might be dropped through machicolations or holes in its floor upon an enemy below; and it was provided with numerous loopholes for the convenience of the defending marksmen.
- n. A fence for inclosing a house and materials while builders are at work; any similar inclosure of boards.
- n. Hence A bill-board; any boarding on which bills are posted.
- n. Also hoard.
Wiktionary
- n. A temporary fence-like structure built around building work to add security and prevent accidents to the public.
- n. A roofed wooden shield placed over the battlements of a castle and projecting from them.
- n. A billboard.
- v. present participle of hoard.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A screen of boards inclosing a house and materials while builders are at work.
- n. A fence, barrier, or cover, inclosing, surrounding, or concealing something.
WordNet 3.0
- n. large outdoor signboard
Etymologies
- Obsolete hoard, hourd, from French dialectal hourd, fence, scaffold, hurdle, from Old French, of Germanic origin.
Examples
“Officials deemed it unfit for human occupancy because of what he called hoarding.”
“It’s probably not a coincidence that FDR used the word hoarding three times in his executive order requiring the surrender of gold.”
“He must allow that government will assume partial powers of the hoarde as long as the hoarding is in our biology.”
One Manifesto, Two Responses, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Some people call it hoarding but to me it's just creativity, and it's much less expensive than owning the actual homes.”
“Either way, I just think that hoarding is so misunderstood.”
Of Shoes And Ships And Sealing Wax And Hoarding Stuff And Things | Her Bad Mother
“Yes, hoarding is often associated with Paranoid Schizophrenia.”
Of Shoes And Ships And Sealing Wax And Hoarding Stuff And Things | Her Bad Mother
“But I totally agree with you that the hoarding is often sign of a deeper, more complicated issue.”
Of Shoes And Ships And Sealing Wax And Hoarding Stuff And Things | Her Bad Mother
“Since corporate America is more interested in hoarding than rehiring, the New Poor are going to be around for awhile.”
The Huffington Post: Mark Olmsted: No Pizza, No Peace: The New Poor and the Coming Blowback
“Compulsive hoarding is NOT something i have ever suffered from, not anyone in my family.”
“The problem with hoarding is that you don't know how long it would have to be stored.”
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
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GHibbs My adjectival use: 'You could use hoarding posters to advertise it.' Aug 22, 2011
chained_bear In castle architecture, a wooden fighting platform fitted to a parapet of wall as extra protection for defenders. See also bressumer. Aug 24, 2008
rolig In British usage, a hoarding is what we in the United States call a billboard:
"Advertising had a long history in Europe. . . . Roadside hoardings and placards were a longstanding blight in Italy well before the nineteen fifties, and any traveler in mid-century France would have been familiar with the exhortations painted high up on the side of rural farmhouses and urban terraces to drink St Raphael or Dubonnet."
– Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945 (New York: Penguin, 2005), p. 349. Jun 20, 2008