escalator
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
escalator (plural escalators)
- Anything that escalates.
- 2006, Dudley D. Cahn, Ruth Anna Abigail, Managing Conflict Through Communication (page xiv)
- 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.
- 2006, Dudley D. Cahn, Ruth Anna Abigail, Managing Conflict Through Communication (page xiv)
- A motor-driven mechanical device consisting of a continuous loop of steps that automatically conveys people from one floor to another.
- An upward or progressive course.
- An escalator clause.
- They agreed to a cost-of-living escalator.
- French: escalator, escalier mécanique, escalateur
- German: Rolltreppe, Fahrtreppe
- Italian: scala mobile
- Portuguese: escada rolante
- Russian: эскала́тор
- Spanish: escalera mecánica
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