stack up

verb

stacked up; stacking up; stacks up

intransitive verb

1
: to add up : total
2
: measure up, compare
usually used with against

Examples of stack up in a Sentence

those newspapers have been stacking up in the basement since we moved here
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All in all, this stacks up as our favorite UFC 318 betting promo. Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 July 2025 And as the discourse around it keeps stacking up, what started as a silly turn of phrase has devolved into an incomprehensible mess that’s preventing people from noticing the much more insidious shift around them. Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2025 Jade Gao | Afp | Getty Images As President Donald Trump intensifies his trade war to stack up tariffs on many Asian countries that produce the goods that consumers in the U.S. rely on, low-cost Asian retail upstarts Temu and Shein may yet find a way back to big success in the U.S. market. Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 10 July 2025 How does the number of partial vetoes this year stack up against previous budget cycles? Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 7 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for stack up

Word History

First Known Use

1896, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of stack up was in 1896

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“Stack up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stack%20up. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.

Kids Definition

stack up

verb
: measure up sense 2, compare
see how you stack up against the champion
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