Definition of "hoards" []

• Plural form of hoard. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hoard. (verb)

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• "So when we have programs that bring in hoards of foreign born workers who will work for less pay and put up with more BS, and those workers displace higher paid US born workers, causing systemic problems like high unemployment in the tech sector, decreased satisfaction with necessary customer service, etc. all in the name of corporations being efficient, reasonable people can say the system is not good."
• "This reminds me of how dictatorial regimes quash dissent – by sending in hoards of sock-puppets parroting their repressive line."
• "Other coin hoards found outside Merovingian Gaul (at Nietap, Crondall and Dronrijp) have contained coin blanks and/or ingots along with coins, suggesting that commerce outside the Merovingian kingdom could use gold bullion alongside coins (Stahl 1992)."