to tack on
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4.1
- phrasal verb
- /tæk ɑn/
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añadir
- The team decided to tack on an extra meeting to discuss the project's progress.
Let's start to tack on a fasting window.
- Let's start to tack on a fasting window.
- And maybe tack on some budget for a can of spray paint.
- But that kind of hopeful note that's cast at the very end feels a little bit tacked on.
- But the big, big difference is it's almost like a basic account that's been tacked on to one of those additional tiers.
- Frankly, they tack on government as a useful instrument for making these kind of societal decisions.
- And so everything that is falling to a black hole from our perspective gets sort of sedimented and tacked on to the near horizon.
- So starting to monitor your glucose now is ways to tack on knowledge and awareness to your life and your overall health.
- There are fines for missed court appearances and traffic, traffic tickets and also the late fees tacked on to later unpaid fines.
- We're not taking the derivative of Y, so we don't need to tack on a DYDX.
- And to tack on to that, we're older, the younger generation, I mean, we just next week, we're releasing a video about Roblox.
- And at the end of each month, I keep tacking on another month because I feel my very best when I'm eating a fatty, red meat heavy carnivore diet.
- I mean, I would, I would tack on to things that I thought that would please this person and weren't really authentic to me.
Examples
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And then if they grant you a permit, they may tack on like a police officer that needs to be there whom you need to pay hourly for.
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Projects seemed to be "tacked on" rather than integrated into the fabric of the school (p. 72).
Academic text (1990) -
I got six months left, and you just tacked on ten easy.
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I tacked on another zero.
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You fail, they tack on more time.
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And maybe tack on some budget for a can of spray paint.
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If I'm late for my lane, they tack on an extra buck.
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Effective controls should be designed into the system and not tacked on as an afterthought.
Academic text (1996) -
Originally intended as a tool in drug prosecutions, the charge is often tacked on now in fraud cases as well.
Academic text (1999) -
And then you entered the US before the 10-year ban expired, which tacks on additional penalties.
Blog text (19)
Synonyms
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1.0
Include something extra to make something larger or better
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2.7
Add something extra for free
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4.1
Quickly add a short remark into a talk or conversation
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1.7
To add something to a building to make it larger
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4.9
Fasten something to a surface with small nails or pins
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3.2
To attach something extra to what already exists
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4.6
To add something to the end of a document or list
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3.4
To add something extra at the end
Antonyms
How Permanent
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to add or attach something extra' is directly derivable from 'tack' (to fasten) combined with the directional/locative particle 'on' (onto), so the action of fastening or putting something onto something else clearly maps to adding or attaching. This verb+particle pattern is common and predictable in English, so an average B1 learner who knows the constituents would most likely infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
The phrase tack on comes from the image of fixing something with a tack, a small nail. If you literally tack on a scrap of paper to a page, you are adding it as an extra, so today tack on means 'to add something extra'.