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Escalator   /ˈɛskəlˌeɪtər/   Listen
Escalator

noun
1.
A clause in a contract that provides for an increase or a decrease in wages or prices or benefits etc. depending on certain conditions (as a change in the cost of living index).  Synonym: escalator clause.
2.
A stairway whose steps move continuously on a circulating belt.  Synonyms: moving staircase, moving stairway.






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"Escalator" Quotes from Famous Books



... came to the building on which he had parked his 'copter, and left the beltway, entering and riding up to the landing stage on the helical escalator. There seemed to have been some trouble; about a dozen Independent-Conservative storm troopers, in their white robes and hoods, with the fiery-cross emblem on their breasts, were bunched together, most of them with their right hands inside their bosoms, while a similar group of Radical-Conservative ...
— Null-ABC • Henry Beam Piper and John Joseph McGuire



Words linked to "Escalator" :   stairway, clause, article, moving staircase, escalator clause, staircase



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