Meaning of pile-up | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A pile, a group of people or things which have piled up on one another, especially
   colloquial
2. A pile of crashed vehicles due to a traffic accident.
   colloquial
3. A pile of tackling players.
   colloquial
4. An accumulation that occurs over time, especially one which is not welcome.

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Examples

“Traffic was backed up for miles due to a twelve-car pile-up on the freeway earlier today.”

“Pinot was among those involved in the huge pile-up just as the race entered the final three kilometres. Grazes were visible under his torn clothing as he pedalled, with a face like thunder, to the finish line.”

“If the supervisor deals with daily workload in an orderly way and does not put pressure on the employee about a pile-up of work, then the employee's perception of pressure will be reduced and the employee will not suffer from work pressure stress.”

“Evidently, the annealing in NO ambient results in a pile-up of nitrogen at the oxide/SiC interface and this results in a reduction of interface states near the conduction band edge of 4H-SiC [16,30,31].”

“Cusp-like trapezoidal shaping functions have been shown to produce the best signal-to-noise ratio and still maintain short duration to avoid pile-up of events.”

“Because family crises evolve and are resolved over a period of time, families seldom are dealing with a single stressor, but rather, our longitudinal data suggest they experience a pile-up of stressors and strains (i.e., demands), particularly in the aftermath of a major stressor, such as a death, a major role change for one member, or a natural disaster.”

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