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Banks will fee you to death. If you bounce a check, the bank has a policy to re-post the check three more times to see if it will be paid. If it continues to bounce they charge a $30 overdraft every time. So, one bounced check will rack up $90 for the bank.
Jonathan Raymond

Meaning of "rack up" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF RACK UP

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RACK UP

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Rack up is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

WHAT DOES RACK UP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of rack up in the English dictionary

The definition of rack up in the dictionary is to accumulate. Other definition of rack up is Also: rack down. to adjust the vertical alignment of so that the upper or lower edges of the frame do not show.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RACK UP

rack
rack and pinion railway
rack off
rack one´s brains
rack railway
rack saw
rack-and-pinion
rack-rent
rack-renter
rackabones
racker
racket
racket press
racket sports
racket-tail
racketeer
racketeering
racketer
racketry
rackets

WORDS THAT END LIKE RACK UP

back up
break up
buck up
clock up
crack up
dead from the neck up
fuck up
jack up
kick up
knock up
lock up
look up
muck up
pack up
pluck up
put someone´s back up
rock up
shack up
speak up
work up

Synonyms and antonyms of rack up in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «rack up» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF RACK UP

Find out the translation of rack up to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of rack up from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «rack up» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

架起来
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

acumular
570 millions of speakers

English

rack up
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

रैक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الرف حتى
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

наберешь
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

acumular
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

র্যাক আপ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

accumuler
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Rak naik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Rack bis
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ため込む
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

랙에 최대
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Rak munggah
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

rack lên
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ரேக் அப்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रॅक अप
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yem vermek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

accumulare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

rack
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

набереш
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Rack-te
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

βασανίσει επάνω
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

rek tot
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

rack upp
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

rack opp
5 millions of speakers

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The term «rack up» is regularly used and occupies the 63.012 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about rack up

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3 QUOTES WITH «RACK UP»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word rack up.
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Marc Andreessen
Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high.
2
T. Harv Eker
If you don't have the money management skills yet, using a debit card will ensure you don't overspend and rack up debt on a credit card.
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Jonathan Raymond
Banks will fee you to death. If you bounce a check, the bank has a policy to re-post the check three more times to see if it will be paid. If it continues to bounce they charge a $30 overdraft every time. So, one bounced check will rack up $90 for the bank.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RACK UP»

Discover the use of rack up in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to rack up and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Chemosensitivity
After all slides are in the slide rack in Wash container #2, dip the slide rack up and down in the wash solution for 1 min. 7. Blot the rack on a paper towel and quickly transfer to Wash container #3. Dip the slide rack up and down in the wash for ...
Rosalyn D. Blumenthal, 2005
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The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and ...
race track bull | rack up 796 race track bull noun a private policeman at a race track US, 1963 • After all, they were race track bulls, and their jurisdiction only covered the race tracks, nothing more. — Madam Sherry, Pleasure Was My Business, ...
Tom Dalzell, 2008
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The English Dialect Dictionary: Being the Complete ...
With up : to choke up. w.Yks.2 Chs.1 As a drain becomes choked with sediment. 'I doubt this drain '11 soon rack up.' Brick or stone pavement is said to be racked up when the joints are filled up with gravel or grout ; Chs.3 The pipe is racked up.
Joseph Wright, 1904
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Cassell's Dictionary of Slang
[1970s+] (US campus) a sudden onset of sleepiness. [RACK n.4 + SE attack] rack back v. see RACK UP v.3 (1). racked adj. [1960s+] tired out, exhausted. [RACK n. 4] racked up adj. [1950s] neat, smartly turned out. [pool/snooker jargon rack tip, ...
Jonathon Green, 2005
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Getting Up: Subway Graffiti in New York
Writers often rack up as a team, with one person acting as a lookout or distracting the clerk while the other grabs the goods. One of the most common methods of racking up paint is to hide it in the sleeves or down the front of a large ski parka or  ...
Craig Castleman, 1982
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The English dialect dictionary, being the complete ...
With up: to choke u . ILYKS.' Cha.' As a drain Eecomes choked with sediment. 'I doubt this drain 'll soon rack up.' Brick or stone pavement is said to be racked up when the jointsare filled up with gravel or grout; Ctu.' The pipe is racked up. - 32.
Joseph Wright
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Rock Climbing Eldorado Canyon
Rack: up to #4 Friend. Begin near the northeast end of the crag, behind a tall pine . P1. Climb an easy, right-facing dihedral and traverse left to a belay ledge. P2. Climb a crack up and right (9) then up a wide crack in the middle of a flat, yellow ...
Richard Rossiter, 2000
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Best of Boulder Rock Climbing
24 ParallelJourney 9 Along the right margin of The Shield, locate two parallel cracks that are only about 6 feet apart. Begin with an easy, left-facing dihedral, then climb the crack on the right. Rack up to a #3.5 Friend. 25 Don't Panic, It's Organic ...
Richard Rossiter, 2000
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Quoth the Maven: More on Language from William Safire
O.K., keynoters, let's rack 'em up: It's traditional to rack up your opponent with a good tongue-lashing for having led the country to wrack and ruin, and after you rack up a victory, you can wreak patronage vengeance from high atop your city on ...
William Safire, 2011
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Cambridge Business English Dictionary
... years has seldom been acknowledged. rack /raek/ verb [T] PHRASAL VERB rack sth up to gradually gain a large amount of something: The company's dozen vehicles rack up 144,000 miles a year 0 Hell rack up $10,000 in bonus money.
Cambridge University Press, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RACK UP»

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TOM PURCELL: How to rack up the debt
Put simply, our spendthrift ways are continuing to rack up our debt. ... money we keep borrowing and spending, our debt-to-GDP ratio has shot up to 74 percent. «The Albany Herald, Jul 15»
2
How to Rack Up Debt
Put simply, our spendthrift ways are continuing to rack up our debt. ... money we keep borrowing and spending, our debt-to-GDP ratio has shot up to 74 percent. «Town Hall, Jul 15»
3
Thieves Rack Up $23000 Bill after Stealing Credit Card Info
HILLIARD (James Jackson) -- A woman's credit took a major blow when her information unknowingly stolen, which allowed thieves to rack up $23,000 worth of ... «Fox 28, Jul 15»
4
Diplomats rack up thousands of dollars in unpaid parking and …
While the fines were incurred across 42 embassies and high commissions for offences in the ACT, diplomats from the Embassy of Saudi Arabia racked up the ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
5
Techies Are Trying to Get Chinese Consumers to Rack Up Debt
One major drain on the American economy is the glut of consumer debt. In China, it's the opposite. The Chinese are notoriously savvy savers, with a gross ... «Wired, Jun 15»
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Ben Reid faces battle to rack up more game time
The timeframe of Collingwood defender Ben Reid's potential AFL return may be extended after he failed to finish a training session on Friday and was a late ... «The Age, May 15»
7
Ola, Union Grove rack up Region 4-AAAAA baseball nods
#It's no surprise that Ola and Union Grove racked up the most mentions. Both teams duked it out for the subregion championship and both put together ... «Henry Herald, May 15»
8
Bad tenants rack up $31m bill
Public housing tenants owed the State Government more than $31 million for damage to taxpayer-owned homes and unpaid rent and water bills last year - up ... «The West Australian, May 15»
9
Super PACs rack up dollars, democracy rings hollow
In the old days, before the U.S. Supreme Court blew up the campaign-finance laws, this would have been accomplished painstakingly, coaxing a grand or two at ... «The Seattle Times, Apr 15»
10
'16 hopefuls rack up Senate absences
Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who are considering presidential bids, as well as presidential candidate Ted Cruz (R-Texas), ... «The Hill, Apr 15»

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