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rack sth up
— phrasal verb with rack /ræk/ verb [T often passive]Definition
› mainly US informal 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 accumulateIncreasing and intensifying › 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.Increasing and intensifyingValue and price increases
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- a snowball effect idiom
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