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Rack up meaning

Rack up is a phrasal verb with 2 meanings. One of them is to gradually accumulate points, profits, or similar results.

Past simple
racked up
Past participle
racked up
-ing form
racking up

What rack up means

accumulate resultsB2

To gradually accumulate points, profits, or similar results

The company racked up record profits last year.

1 more meaning of rack up is in the Retite app, with an example and a translation into your language.

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Similar phrasal verbs

With rack: rack off.

With up: wake up, pick up, grow up, line up, make up, set up, put up, go up, bring up, mess up.

Common questions

What does rack up mean?

It has 2 meanings. One of them is to gradually accumulate points, profits, or similar results. The other one, with an example and a translation into your language, is in the Retite app.

What is the past tense of rack up?

Racked up, which is also its past participle.

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