0 to collect large amounts of something and keep it for yourself, often in a secret place: --
1 a large amount of something that someone has saved and hidden: --
2 to collect a large supply of something, more than you need now, often because you think you will not be able to get it later: --
3 to collect a lot of money or objects, sometimes secretly: --
4 a large amount of money or objects that someone has collected, sometimes secretly: --
Mental containment, rather than being construed here as the wise accumulation or safekeeping of mental treasure, is now depicted as ungenerous hoarding that carries a risk of social harm.
The first response to high childhood mortality has been termed the 'strategy of hoarding' living children, and the second has been labelled the 'strategy of replacing' dying children.
They responded to it by buying land and cattle, hoarding gold and providing mercantile forms of credit to producers that would repay in kind rather than in depreciated currency.
If one hoards and the other shares, the one who receives some of each medicine (the hoarder) will survive with 80% probability, but the other will surely die.
Profiteering and hoarding were serious problems.
The regular occurrence of hoards with gold coins and torcs confirms the view that gold objects indeed played a role in the gift exchange between tribal leaders and their followers.
Firstly, the coin hoards listed in the literature were only the ones recorded in publications available to a particular author.
Do not be a miser, hoarding your talents and abilities and knowledge, either among yourselves or in your dealings with your clients, patients or flock.
