stack up

See also: stackup

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

stack up (third-person singular simple present stacks up , present participle stacking up , simple past and past participle stacked up )

(transitive ) To put into a stack.
Stack up the boxes.
(intransitive ) to pile up; to accumulate.
(idiomatic , transitive ) To put a group of abstract things together.
to stack up memories
Often followed by against or among : to compare with (something); to measure up.
- 1939, Milwaukee Journal, issue of 7th September, page 3:
  "How Populations Stack Up Among Nations At War" (name of the article)
- 1973, The Paper Chase, 01:17:10
  This is a great outline. Fantastic. If yours doesn't stack up, you won't get a chance to look at it.
- 2018 June 18, Phil McNulty, "Tunisia 1 – 2 England", in BBC Sport ‎^[1], archived from the original on 21 April 2019:
  [Raheem] Sterling's attitude and ability is never in doubt, never ducking a challenge or dropping his intensity, but the numbers are simply not stacking up at England level.
- 2021 February 24, Richard Clinnick, "Decarbonisation key to retaining financial support", in RAIL, number 925, page 18:
  Meaney said the rail industry needs to be honest with itself when discussing major investment projects, and to ask if the business case stacks up.

Synonyms

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(put into a stack): heap up , pile up , stack ; see also Thesaurus:pile up
(accumulate): accrue , add up ; see also Thesaurus:accumulate

Translations

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to put into a stack

German: aufstapeln (de) , stapeln (de)
Russian: нагроможда́ть (ru) impf (nagromoždátʹ), нагромозди́ть (ru) pf (nagromozdítʹ), скла́дывать (ru) impf (skládyvatʹ), сложи́ть (ru) pf (složítʹ)

accumulate

German: läppern (de) (reflexive), ansammeln (de) (reflexive, often impersonal with subject etwas , and with the topic and/or the adverb da as an adverbial)
Japanese: 積もる (ja) (つもる, tsumoru), 溜まる (ja) (たまる, tamaru), 重なる (ja) (かさなる, kasanaru)
Korean: 쌓이다 (ko) (ssaida)
Russian: нака́пливаться (ru) impf (nakáplivatʹsja), накопи́ться (ru) pf (nakopítʹsja)

to compare with something

German: gleichziehen (de) (often used with mit (etwas, jemandem)), ein Vergleich sein (chiefly in the negative, often used with zu (etwas, jemandem)), im Vergleich dastehen (often used with zu (etwas, jemandem))
Russian: соотве́тствовать (ru) n (sootvétstvovatʹ), быть сравни́мым (bytʹ sravnímym)
Spanish: compararse (es) , figurar (es)
Vietnamese: chồng (vi)

Anagrams

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tack-ups , tacks up , upstack

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