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STACK AWAY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does stack away mean?
• STACK AWAY (verb)
The verb STACK AWAY has 1 sense:
1. keep or lay aside for future use
Familiarity information: STACK AWAY used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Keep or lay aside for future use
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
hive away; lay in; put in; salt away; stack away; stash away; store
Context example:
The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat
Hypernyms (to "stack away" is one way to...):
hold on; keep (retain possession of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "stack away"):
bin (store in bins)
computerise; computerize (store in a computer)
victual (lay in provisions)
accumulate; amass; collect; compile; hoard; pile up; roll up (get or gather together)
hive (store, like bees)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
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