Definition
To attribute or account for something; to ascribe.
In Context
- "Chalk it up to fear that he didn't finish."
- "“You can chalk it up maybe to, as one of my friends says, a nautical superstition,” he said. “Maybe I read too many Greek tragedies. I don't believe something’s going to happen like that until it’s happened."
- "Some of the best pre-mortems for Steve Ballmer, out-going CEO of Microsoft, have chalked up the company's problem to the "innovator's dilemma.""
Also Said As
- accredit
- impute
- put down to
- accredit
- ascribe
- attach
- attribute
- chalk up to
- charge
- draw
- impute
- lay
- put down to
- repose