stacking

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present participle of

to arrange things in an ordered pile:

stack something (up) Once the last few people had left the hall, the caretaker began stacking (up) the chairs.

to fill something with objects:

I got a job stacking shelves in a supermarket.

Will you stack the dishwasher and switch it on, please?

to circle over an airport waiting for permission to land, or to make an aircraft do this:

The airline uses thousands of tonnes of fuel a year when its planes are stacking above Heathrow and Gatwick.

Planes stacked up at LAX when a radar failure caused problems nationwide.

We were stacked up for hours waiting to land.