English Dictionary

escalator

/ˈɛs.kə.leɪ.tə/

noun

Anything that escalates. / 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.

The escalator in the mall was out of order.

意味（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.

意味（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.

意味（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

意味（4）

An escalator clause.

They agreed to a cost-of-living escalator.