stacking

/ (ˈstækɪŋ) /

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noun

the arrangement of aircraft traffic in busy flight lanes, esp while waiting to land at an airport, with a minimum vertical separation for safety of 1000 feet below 29 000 feet and 2000 feet above 29 000 feet

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How to use stacking in a sentence

These samples are biased, stacking the deck in favor of a connection between mental disorder and violence.
Massacres and Madness|Linda Teplin|December 14, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Stacking my mess of chips, I looked down a third time and saw two kings ... two majestic kings.
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They are clearly trying to take over the Armed Forces by stacking its junior cadres with their own members.
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A novelist escapes to the tropics after tragedies begin stacking up at home.
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Second, the right will be hitting Crowley hard, on that and other matters, like allegedly stacking the questions.
The Day-After Spin: Will Any Conservatives Admit Their Guy Lost?|Michael Tomasky|October 17, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The tired waiters are putting up the shutters of the smaller cafés and stacking up the chairs.
The Real Latin Quarter|F. Berkeley Smith
Soldiers were already stacking up the chairs ready for the clearance of the gymnasium for the morrow.
The Doctor of Pimlico|William Le Queux
There is no shocking, no stacking or housing: all in one operation, the grain is made ready for market.
Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail|Ezra Meeker
Beyond that fifty-yard stream lay the enemy, reported now to be stacking up drive impedimenta.
The Wrong Twin|Harry Leon Wilson
But finally he got tired of his drawer-opening and lamp-testing and towel-stacking, and escorted me up to the twelfth.
Highways in Hiding|George Oliver Smith

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