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Hoarder

//ˈhɔɹdɚ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who hoards; one who accumulates, collects, and stores, especially one who does so to excess.

    "A bill to demonetize existing French gold coinage has been introduced in the Chamber of Deputies by Deputies Lenoir, Bouffandeau, and Eymond. The purpose is to force hoarders to bring out gold estimated at 4,000,000,000 francs which is still kept in hiding in spite of patriotic appeals to the owners to exchange it for notes."

  2. 2
    a person who accumulates things and hides them away for future use wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English horder, hordere (“a keeper of a store of goods”), from Old English hordere (“a treasurer, steward, chamberlain”), equivalent to hoard + -er.

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