stacking

/ (ˈstækɪŋ) /


noun
  1. 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

  • 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.

  • 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