Sekirov Dictionary

escalator

UK /ˈɛs.kə.leɪ.tə/US /ˈɛs.kə.leɪ.tɚ/

noun 4
verb 1
forms 3

noun4

•
A 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.
Anything that escalates.
•
An upward or progressive course.
- Lots of people fell for the pitch that real estate was an up-only escalator into the American Dream — 2009
•
An escalator clause.
- They agreed to a cost-of-living escalator.

verb1

•
(informal) To move by escalator.
- We escalatored to the second floor.

forms

escalatored · escalatoring · escalators

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