Escalator

Noun

Definitions

1.NounAnything that escalates.

2.NounA motor-driven mechanical device consisting of a continuous loop of steps that automatically conveys people from one floor to another.

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

3.NounAn upward or progressive course.

4.NounAn escalator clause.

"They agreed to a cost-of-living escalator."

5.VerbTo move by escalator.

"We escalatored to the second floor."

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