hoarding

🇺🇸 /ˈhɔːrdɪŋ/ 🇬🇧 /ˈhɔːdɪŋ/
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noun
R

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.

R

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.

R

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.

translation

n. a big sign that shows advertisements outside a building or on the side of a road; a fence made of wooden boards that is put up around a building site while a building is being built; when someone collects and keeps a lot of something, like food or money, often in secret

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Plural hoardings