escalator English

Meaning escalator meaning

What does escalator mean?

escalator

— noun a stairway whose steps move continuously on a circulating belt

— noun (= escalator clause) a clause in a contract that provides for an increase or a decrease in wages or prices or benefits etc. depending on certain conditions (as a change in the cost of living index)

Synonyms escalator synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as escalator?

escalator English » English

moving staircase

moving stairway

escalator clause

stairmoving

moving staircase/stairway

Topics escalator topics

What do people use escalator to talk about?

Work and occupation Working with buildings Parts of a building

Floor, story

• What words refer to stairs and other ways of climbing to a higher level?
  stair step rung (of a ladder) staircase stairway stairwell stairs flight of stairs elevator lift escalator fire escape ladder banister handrail landing ramp

Examples escalator examples

How do I use escalator in a sentence?

Simple sentences

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

Where's the up-escalator?

My shoelace got caught in the escalator.

The escalator suddenly stopped.

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

When riding the escalator, please hold the handrail and stand inside the yellow line.

The escalator is broken.

You can take the escalator or the elevator.

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

The escalator quickly stopped.

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Opposite number of the escalator.

Look, I'm a doctor, not an escalator.

I used to manufacture escalator shoes for people who were nauseous in elevator shoes.

Erno said to take the north escalator. - I'm running this.

Don't take the escalator.

Why don't they put an escalator in these things? - Lazybones!

Hartman, proceeding to the south escalator.

I warned you to hold on tight to the rails! - This is not an escalator!

The escalator.

The men's room is downstairs, to the left of the escalator.

You practically puke riding on the escalator at Bloomingdale's!

We saw you on the escalator.

Does this stairway go up to the escalator?

Erno said to take the north escalator.

Hey, why don't we just call it a climb the way it is and take the escalator down?

Why don't they put an escalator in these things?

It was like an escalator.

I started going up to my flat on the escalator.

And the escalator.

I'd like to know if the escalator goes to my flat.

And I went up the escalator and got away.

Didn't anybody consider putting in an escalator?

The stairs had changed too. It was like an escalator.

You practically puke on the escalator at Bloomingdale's!

Let me ask you. Does this stairway go up to the escalator?

Use the escalator.

And that was the only folly. the people of Springfield ever embarked upon. except for the Popsicle stick skyscraper. and the 50-foot magnifying glass. and that escalator to nowhere.

Listen, I know you're new but it's understood that everything from young men's to the escalator is my territory.

It's only an escalator.

Why don't I take the stairs? Why take the stairs when I could take the escalator? Why take the escalator when I've got a perfectly good canoe?

News and current affairs

It is more like an escalator: once we get on it, we are liable to be taken to places that we never expected to reach.