escalator
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kəˌleɪ noun
1.
Also called moving staircase, moving stairway. a continuously moving stairway on an endless loop for carrying passengers up or down.
2.
a means of rising or descending, increasing or decreasing, etc., especially by stages: the social escalator.
adjective
4.
of, pertaining to, or included in an escalator clause: The union demands escalator protection of wages.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a moving staircase consisting of stair treads fixed to a conveyor belt, for transporting passengers between levels, esp between the floors of a building |
| 2. | short for escalator clause |
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Word Origin & History
escalator
1900, Amer.Eng., trade name of an Otis Elevator Co. moving staircase, coined from escalade, a c.1600 borrowing from M.Fr., where it meant "an assault with ladders on a fortification" (from L. scala "ladder") + -ator in elevator. Figurative use is from 1927.
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Example sentences
But other indices suggest that the postwar escalator has not been moving for quite a while.
The building entrance is behind the escalator at street level.
Install on escalators sensory devices that detect foreign objects and shut the escalator off automatically.
Perform a complete operational check of each elevator, escalator and dumbwaiter.
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