STACK UP


Meaning of STACK UP in English

stack up phrasal verb ( see also ↑ stack )

1 . stack something ↔ up to make things into a neat pile

2 . informal used to talk about how good something is compared with something else

stack up against

Parents want to know how their kids’ schools stack up against others.

3 . if a number of things stack up, they gradually collect or get stuck in one place:

Traffic stacked up behind the bus.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.