stack up

"Any scheme has to stack up economically but you cannot necessarily pick this up and drop it into another area."

I had to rollerblade once in a Moby video, but that doesn’t seem like it’s going to stack up against all this, so maybe we should just move on to the next person.

But the bodies of young men continued to stack up after Bonin’s capture, leading investigators to believe another killer was on the loose.

After being pardoned and released, he expressed regret for what he had done, saying that "however good the money is", the moral case "has to stack up".

He accepted that he had left out of his report any reference to the BBC claiming it had multiple sources as he believed "it didn't stack up".