English

Escalators

Escalators

Noun

escalator ‎(plural escalators)

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.
   • 2009 February 19, Froma Harrop, “Housing aid may revive American dream for Latinos”, in Houston Chronicle:

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

3. An escalator clause.

   They agreed to a cost-of-living escalator.

Derived terms

• escalator clause

Related terms

• escalate

Translations

See also

• escalator on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• escalator on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• movator
• moving pavement, moving sidewalk
• moving ramp
• moving walkway
• stairway
• step
• travelator

French

Noun

escalator m ‎(plural escalators)

1. escalator