Hoarding
Hoarding is the act of engaging in excessive acquisition of items that are not needed or for which no space is available.
Civil unrest or the threat of natural disasters may lead people to hoard foodstuffs, water, gasoline, and other essentials ...
is the gathering and storing of goods.
Hoarding may also refer to:
Animal and human behavior
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Hoarding (animal behaviour)
Hoarding or caching in animal behavior is the storage of food in locations hidden from the sight of both conspecifics (animals of the same or closely related species) and members of other species.Vander Wall, Stephen B. (1990) Food Hoarding in ...
, an animal behaviour related to storing surplus goods for later use
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Hoarding (economics)
Hoarding in economics refers to the concept of purchasing and storing a large amount of a particular product, creating scarcity of that product, and ultimately driving the price of that product up. Commonly hoarded products include assets such as ...
, the practice of obtaining and holding resources in quantities greater than needed for one's immediate use
* Hoarding disorders
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Hoarding disorder
Hoarding disorder (HD) or Plyushkin's disorder is a mental disorder characterised by persistent difficulty in parting with possessions and engaging in excessive acquisition of items that are not needed or for which no space is available. This re ...
, a pathological hoarding by humans
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Animal hoarding
Animal hoarding, sometimes called Noah syndrome, is keeping a higher-than-usual number of animals as domestic pets without the ability to properly house or care for them, while at the same time denial, denying this inability. Compulsive hoarding ...
, the compulsive hoarding of animals by humans
Arts, entertainment, and media
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Hoarding: Buried Alive'', an American reality television series (2010-2013) that premiered on TLC
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''Hoarders'' (TV series), an American reality television series airing on A&E
Structures
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Hoarding (castle)
A hoard or hoarding was a temporary wooden shed-like construction on the exterior of a castle during a siege that enabled the defenders to improve their field of fire (weaponry), field of fire along the length of a wall and, most particularly, d ...
, a roofed wooden shield placed over castle battlements
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Billboard
A billboard (also called a hoarding in the UK and many other parts of the world) is a large outdoor advertising structure (a billing board), typically found in high-traffic areas such as alongside busy roads. Billboards present large advertis ...
, known also as a hoarding in some countries
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Temporary fencing
Temporary fencing is a free standing, self-supporting fence panel. The panels are held together with couplers that interlock panels together making it portable and flexible for a wide range of applications.
Fence panels are supported with count ...
enclosing a construction site
See also
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Hoard (disambiguation)
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