| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | put away, accumulate |
| Synonyms: | acquire, amass, buy up, cache, collect, deposit, garner, gather, hide, keep, lay away, lay up, pile up, put aside for rainy day, put by, save, scrimp, sock away, squirrel, stash, stockpile, store, stow away, treasure |
| Notes: | a hoard is a collection or the action that creates one; a horde is a crowd, sometimes unfriendly |
| Antonyms: | expend, spend, squander, throw away, waste |
| Main Entry: | avaricious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | greedy |
| Synonyms: | covetous, gluttonous, hoarding, money-grubbing, pleonectic, predatory, rapacious, selfish, tight* |
| Main Entry: | penurious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stingy |
| Synonyms: | avaricious, cheap, chintzy, close-fisted, costive, curmudgeonly, economical, frugal, greedy, hoarding, miserly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, pennywise, pinchpenny, saving, scrimping, sparing, thrifty, tightfisted, uncharitable, ungenerous, ungiving |
| Main Entry: | billboard |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sign |
| Synonyms: | advertisement, advertising board, hoarding, placard, poster, signboard |
| Main Entry: | accumulate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | gather or amass something |
| Synonyms: | accrue, acquire, add to, agglomerate, aggregate, amalgamate, assemble, bring together, cache, clean up, collect, collocate, compile, concentrate, cumulate, draw together, expand, gain, gather, grow, heap, heap together, hoard, incorporate, increase, load up, lump*, make a bundle, make a killing, mass, pile up, pile*, procure, profit, rack up, roll up, round up, scare up, stack up, stockpile, store, store up, swell, unite |
| Antonyms: | disperse, dissipate, dwindle, lessen, lose, spend, squander, waste |
| Main Entry: | amass |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | gather, accumulate |
| Synonyms: | aggregate, assemble, clean up, collect, compile, corral*, garner, heap*, hoard, lay up, make a killing, make a pile, pile, round up, scare up, stockpile, store |
| Antonyms: | disburse, disperse, dissipate, divide, dole, scatter, spend |
| Main Entry: | bank |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | collect money or advantage |
| Synonyms: | amass, deposit, heap, hill, hoard, invest, lay aside, lay away, mass, mound, pile, put by, salt away, save, sock away, speculate, squirrel, stash |
| Antonyms: | disburse, spend |
| Main Entry: | collect |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | accumulate, come together |
| Synonyms: | aggregate, amass, array, assemble, cluster, compile, congregate, congress, convene, converge, convoke, corral, flock, flock together, gather, get hold of, group, heap, hoard, muster, rally, rendezvous, round up, save, scare up, stockpile |
| Antonyms: | dispense, disperse, disseminate, distribute, divide, scatter, share |
| Main Entry: | concentrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | gather, collect |
| Synonyms: | accumulate, agglomerate, aggregate, amass, assemble, bunch, center, centralize, cluster, coalesce, collect, combine, compact, compress, congest, conglomerate, congregate, consolidate, constrict, contract, converge, cramp, crowd, draw together, eliminate, embody, focalize, focus, forgather, garner, get to the meat, heap, heap up, hoard, huddle, integrate, intensify, localize, mass, muster, narrow, pile, reduce, salt away, store, strengthen, swarm, unify, zero in |
| Antonyms: | disperse, scatter |