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单词 rack sth up
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rack sth up

phrasal verb with rack uk/ræk/us/ræk/verb [ T often passive ]

to gradually get more points, profits, etc.:

He has racked up 450 points in three months.
Astronomical profits/losses were racked up by airlines last year.
Synonym
accumulate

to increase something such as a rent or price, especially by an amount that is considered to be too much:

Our landlord racked up the rent by 15 percent this year.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Increasing and intensifying

  • -ify
  • a snowball effect idiom
  • accretion
  • accumulate
  • accumulative
  • add fuel to the fire idiom
  • balloon
  • bump
  • dial
  • growing
  • heighten
  • hot up
  • increase
  • pile
  • rack
  • scale sth up
  • speed-up
  • spurt
  • step
  • step sth up

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rack sth up

phrasal verb with rack uk/ræk/usverb [ T ]

to gradually gain a large amount of something:

The government and debt counsellors believe it is too easy to rack up large numbers of loans.
The company's dozen vehicles rack up 144,000 miles a year.
He'll rack up $10,000 in bonus money.
rack sth up into sth Try to rack these small returns up into modest but consistently positive returns.
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