hoarding
Speech parts
1. hoarding - Noun
2. hoarding - Verb
Meaning
of Hoard
A screen of boards inclosing a house and materials while builders are at work.
A fence, barrier, or cover, inclosing, surrounding, or concealing something.
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Examples
Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would have no book, nor a place to read.
Under the Enrichment Laws, consumers have to spend a fixed quota of dollars each month, depending on their strata. Hoarding is an anti-corpocratic crime.
Result of self-consciousness: audience and actor are the same. I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification. I live my life but I don't live in it. The hoarding instinct in human relations.
People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.
Attacking the rich is not envy. It is self defense. The hoarding of wealth is the cause of poverty. The rich aren't just indifferent to poverty; they create it and maintain it.