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. Michigan State Police:

   As you can imagine, it's not easy to count vehicles as they pile up.

2. 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.

3. Volodymyr Zelenskyy:

   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.

4. Soomi Lee:

   When sleep loss occurs almost every day, which means( it's) chronic, that's when our body and mind can not tolerate anymore, the research shows that consecutive sleep loss results in incomplete recovery and stress pile-up and so degrade our daily well-being.

5. Scott Alcala:

   Ameer Abbaf Fakhraldin was just trying to target as many people as Ameer Abbaf Fakhraldin could, ameer Abbaf Fakhraldin was just trying to cause a pile up. It wasn't me personally. It was as if someone were to throw a bomb in the middle of downtown, it’s no different, it’s the same thinking.

References

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