Idiom idiom
stack up
Meaning
To put a group of abstract things together.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“How do your skills stack up against the other candidates?”
“When we compare the two business plans, the new proposal seems to stack up better than the original one.”
“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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Last updated August 10, 2026