stacking up
Building into heaps
Stacking up is the progressive form of stack up, meaning to accumulate or compare.
Things stack up when they pile on: The bills are stacking up.
When comparing, it asks how something measures against a standard: How is the new employee stacking up?
In military and police contexts, stacking up means lining up at a door before breaching.
- pileAccumulated mass of objects
- piling upIncreasing in quantity
- accumulateGather gradually
- adding upSumming together
- gatherBring or come together
amass · assemble · lining up · building up · measuring · sizing up · measure up · comparing · evaluating · load · heap · buildup · collect · racking up · swell · piling · warehouse · mount
stacking upscattering
Distribution in many directions
spreading out · dispersing · unstacking · knocking down · taking apart
stacking uptaking apart
Separating into components
disassembling · deconstructing · breaking down · dismantling · depleting
stacking upfalling short
Not meeting expectations
coming up short · underperforming · lagging behind · not cutting it · disappointing