Definitions for pile-up
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1. pile-upnoun

   A traffic accident or collision involving multiple vehicles.

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

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1. pile-up

   A multiple vehicle collision (colloquially known as a pile-up, multi-car collision, multi-vehicle collision, or simply a multi) is a road traffic collision involving many vehicles. Generally occurring on high-capacity and high-speed routes such as freeways, they are one of the deadliest forms of traffic collisions. The most disastrous pileups have involved more than a hundred vehicles.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of pile-up in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of pile-up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of pile-up in a Sentence

1. Atsuo Ito:

   The decision for Amari to quit was made promptly and seemed almost clear cut, so that didn't harm ratings so much, but if a lot of other things pile up, it's inevitable that voters get the impression the administration is growing sloppy -- and I think that impression is strengthening.

2. Volodymyr Zelenskyy:

   To do this to a peaceful city, what the occupiers did, is a terror that will be remembered for centures to come, in places where there were especially fierce battles, the bodies of Russian soldiers simply pile up along our line of defense -- and no one is collecting these bodies.

3. Clay Bonnyman:

   There's tons and tons of veterans, tons and tons of families that are trying to get records, that those requests, they're just going to pile up and pile up and pile up and who knows if they'll ever be fulfilled.

4. The IEA:

   While a rebalancing has clearly begun, the process is likely to be prolonged as a supply overhang is expected to persist through 2016 - suggesting global inventories will pile up further.

5. Trevor Smith:

   He had this whimsical observation, maybe one day we could have an animal that would pile up the sand after storms.

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Pile-up
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pile-up