Definition of "hoarding" []

• A temporary wooden fence around a building or structure under construction or repair. (noun)
• Chiefly British A billboard. (noun)

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• "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."