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Idiom idiom

stack up


To put a group of abstract things together.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.


SIMPLE

How do your skills stack up against the other candidates?

CONTEXTUAL

When we compare the two business plans, the new proposal seems to stack up better than the original one.

COMPLEX

The committee carefully analyzed the evidence to see how the witness's testimony would stack up against the conflicting reports from the police.


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  1. 01

    stack the cards

    To surreptitiously arrange something in order to gain an unfair advantage, or to alter an outcome

Last updated August 10, 2026