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PamQueue Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Stacked Team

"a stacked jury"

"a stacked football team"

Could it be that "stacked" is used with opposite meanings with "jury" and "team"?
  

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Not really. A stacked football team is one composed of exceptionally good football players. A stacked jury is one composed of exceptionally biased jurors.

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Not really. A stacked football team is one composed of exceptionally good football players. A stacked jury is one composed of exceptionally biased jurors.
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"a stacked football committee"

How should I intepretate this?
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I'd need more context. I don't know what a football committee is.
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Let's talk about a company and its staff:

Could "a stacked staff" mean that the employees are exceptionally biased, or that they are exceptionally capable?
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I'd expect it to mean capable but "stacked" isn't very common in non-sports contexts and it basically just means "very X" where "X" is an attribute that you would expect the noun to have. So a stacked team is one that is very good at their sport or other prospective task, a stacked jury is very biased, a stacked woman is voluptuous, etc.
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Hi,

My dictionary defines the verb 'stack' in this idiomatic sense as follows.

create a disproportion in the representation on (a committee, etc.) so that it will act in one's interests.

I would add that there is usually
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"Stacked" is good from the point of view of the people in control. A coach wants a stacked football team, a team stocked with good players. A lawyer wants a stacked jury, a jury that's going to vote his way - during the jury-selection process he was careful to put people on the jury that are sympathetic to his client.

A stacked football committee would be something like where the coach,
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