Escalator

Quick meaning: Escalator is a noun meaning Anything that escalates.

Meaning

Anything that escalates.

More Meanings

1. A motor-driven mechanical device consisting of a continuous loop of steps that automatically conveys people from one floor to another.
2. An upward or progressive course.
3. An escalator clause.
4. (intransitive, informal) To move by escalator.

Example Sentences

We escalatored to the second floor.

They agreed to a cost-of-living escalator.

Lots of people fell for the pitch that real estate was an up-only escalator into the American Dream

There is a plastic molly-guard covering the escalator's shutdown button to prevent little kids from pushing it and stopping the escalator.

Word Forms

• escalators
• escalatoring
• escalatored

Synonyms for escalator

Depending on context, synonyms include escalate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include elevator, lift, progression, stair, staircase, stairwell.

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