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发音：[hɔrd]
例句：
- The verb “hoard” means to collect and store things in large quantities, often with the idea of keeping them for future use. Imagine someone gathering a lot of items, like food, toys, or money, and putting them away to keep for themselves. Hoarding is when you accumulate a surplus of things, sometimes more than you actually need. People might hoard because they think those items will be useful or valuable in the future, or they just like having a lot of them.
- The labor unions, currently in a state of strike against Kaiser Permanente, posit an allegation that the organization, despite its nonprofit classification, is secretively hoarding financial gains through the retention of profits.
- In the eyes of Hale, the Osage women represent an exploitable opportunity due to their hoarded wealth, which he contends should rightfully belong to white men based on the asserted notion of a debt owed to them.
- The redesign aimed to encourage the return of funds hoarded by individuals and companies into the financial system, with the expectation that such a shift would mitigate the rapid escalation of prices.
- Economists contend that the initially reported robust job growth in January, subsequently revised down to 504,000, might have been influenced by seasonal adjustments, reflecting an unusual hoarding of workers by employers in the context of a competitive labor market post-holidays.
- The pivotal $440 million College Football Playoff, overseen not by the NCAA but by the five power conferences in the Football Bowl Subdivision, is characterized by the deliberate hoarding of generated revenue.
解释：
- Hoard这个单词做动词使用，其表示“to get or gather together something for future uses”这一含义，即“聚集/囤积/贮藏/储存（为了后续使用）”这一含义，与store /accumulate /amass /collect这些单词构成近义词。
- 具体使用场景如下：
- The submitted filing highlighted the challenge faced by Berkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffett in effectively deploying the conglomerate’s substantial hoarded cash reserves, be it through acquisitions or equity investments, particularly in the context of U.S. stock indices trading at or achieving record highs.（提交的文件强调了伯克希尔·哈撒韦公司和沃伦·巴菲特在有效部署该集团大量囤积的现金储备方面面临的挑战，无论是通过收购还是股权投资，特别是在美国股指交易价格创下历史新高的背景下。）
–News - Cities such as Delhi are grappling with water shortages, prompting residents to hoard limited supplies in buckets, inadvertently creating breeding sites for various issues.（德里等城市正在努力解决水资源短缺问题，促使居民将有限的物资囤积在桶中，无意中为各种问题创造了滋生地。）
–Science - Efficiently molding individually talented players into a cohesive unit emerges as a critical factor for success in team sports, exemplified in the NBA by franchises like the Lakers, Celtics, and Heat strategically hoarding elite players to secure championship victories.（有效地将个人有天赋的球员塑造成一个有凝聚力的单位，成为团队运动成功的关键因素，在NBA中，湖人队、凯尔特人队和热火队等球队战略性地聚集精英球员以确保总冠军的胜利。）
–Sports - In parallel to the phenomenon of panicked consumer hoarding toilet paper during the initial stages of the pandemic, corporate entities, driven by concerns over potential shortages of essential materials, are adopting a proactive approach by ordering quantities surpassing immediate needs and subsequently storing them in warehouses.（在大流行的初始阶段，恐慌的消费者囤积卫生纸的现象同时，出于对基本材料潜在短缺的担忧，企业实体正在采取积极主动的方法，订购超过即时需求的数量，然后将它们储存在仓库中。）
–Technology - Accumulating nearly 18,000 bottles from dollar stores across two states, a former Air Force technical sergeant engaged in hoarding practices, subsequently retailing the items on Amazon for inflated prices of up to $70 per unit until the e-commerce platform intervened and terminated the enterprise.（一名前空军技术中士从两个州的一元店积累了近 18,000 瓶，从事囤积行为，随后在亚马逊上以每单位高达 70 美元的高价零售这些商品，直到电子商务平台介入并终止了该企业。）
–Business
