escalator — ozdic

Collocations

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1

(noun.)

ADJ

down, up

My luggage got stuck when I stepped onto the up escalator at the airport.

VERB + ESCALATOR

take

When we arrived at the mall, my daughter took the escalator for the first time.

go up | descend, go down

ESCALATOR + VERB

carry sb

The escalator carried me up to the shopping mall's second level in seconds.

Definitions

noun

1

Anything that escalates.

Fourth, communication researchers study the role of stress and negative attitudes as key contributors to conflict, anger as an escalator of conflict, and emotional residues as barriers to reconciliation.

2

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.

It was the Earls Court installation on the Piccadilly tube, opened on October 4, 1911, which really began the successful career of the escalator in this country. At first the public mistrusted it, and a wooden-legged man called "Bumper" Harris was engaged to travel up and down all day to give passengers confidence. Today there are 181 escalators at 57 London Transport stations.

3

An upward or progressive course.

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

4

An escalator clause.

They agreed to a cost-of-living escalator.

verb

1

To move by escalator.

We escalatored to the second floor.

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Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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01

Fourth, communication researchers study the role of stress and negative attitudes as key contributors to conflict, anger as an escalator of conflict, and emotional residues as barriers to reconciliati

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02

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

Wiktionary

03

It was the Earls Court installation on the Piccadilly tube, opened on October 4, 1911, which really began the successful career of the escalator in this country. At first the public mistrusted it, and

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04

We escalatored to the second floor.

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05

People who are not in a hurry stand on the right side of the escalator.

Tatoeba · #19739

06

If you try to defend the seniority-based corporate escalator these days all you'll get is flak from younger employees.

Tatoeba · #242077

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, escalator is marked as informal. Watch for register when choosing this word.