hoarding
🇺🇸
/ˈhɔːrdɪŋ/
🇬🇧
/ˈhɔːdɪŋ/
a big sign that shows advertisements outside a building or on the side of a road
There was a colorful hoarding advertising a new phone model.
a fence made of wooden boards that is put up around a building site while a building is being built
The construction site was surrounded by a wooden hoarding to keep people away.
when someone collects and keeps a lot of something, like food or money, often in secret
The news report talked about hoarding of essential supplies during the pandemic.