Hoarding

Quick meaning: Hoarding is a noun meaning (architecture, historical) A roofed wooden shield placed over the battlements of a castle and projecting from them.

Meaning

(architecture, historical) A roofed wooden shield placed over the battlements of a castle and projecting from them.

More Meanings

1. The practice of accumulating goods.
2. (countable) A good which is hoarded.
3. present participle and gerund of hoard
4. (construction, UK, Ireland, Hong Kong, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) A temporary fence-like structure built around building work to add security and prevent accidents to the public.
5. (psychology) An anxiety disorder characterized by a compulsive need to accumulate goods and feelings of anxiety or discomfort about discarding such goods.
6. (chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A billboard.

Example Sentences

The west side is one massive building site, although it's hard to appreciate what's going on behind all the hoardings.

But that doesn’t solve harder questions about the hoarding of vaccines, raw materials and patent rights in the west, or the fact that Covax clearly isn’t working as fast as it should.

Nobody has ever seen Big Brother. He is a face on the hoardings, a voice on the telescreen. We may be reasonably sure that he will never die, and there is already considerable uncertainty as to when he was born.

They’re a familiar sight to many: the eye-roll-inducing, over-the-top development hoardings and adverts that celebrate the (inevitably luxury and, to most people, unaffordable) developments soon to be added to the city skyline.

Word Forms

• hoardings

Synonyms for hoarding

Depending on context, synonyms include billboard.

Antonyms for hoarding

Common opposites include decluttering.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include billboard, storage, coaming, accumulation, build-up, stockpiling.

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