Usually means: Increase in intensity or severity.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word escalation:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. escalation: Merriam-Webster
  2. escalation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. escalation: Collins English Dictionary
  4. escalation: Vocabulary.com
  5. Escalation, escalation: Wordnik
  6. escalation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. escalation: Wiktionary
  8. escalation: Dictionary.com
  9. escalation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Escalation (animated short), Escalation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. escalation: Rhymezone
  12. escalation: FreeDictionary.org
  13. escalation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. escalation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Escalation: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  3. escalation: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. escalation: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Conflict Resolution Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. escalation: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (escalation)

▸ noun:  The act of escalating.
▸ noun:  An increase or rise, especially to counteract a perceived discrepancy.
▸ noun:  A deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict.
▸ noun:  (support) The reassignment of a difficult problem to someone whose job is dedicated to handling such cases.

Similar:
increasement, upping, escalade, uplift, upgrade, incrementation, rise, reaggravation, scaleup, appreciation, more...

Opposite:
de-escalation, deescalation

Types:
arms race, tit-for-tat, spiral, more...

Phrases:
dose escalation, Cost escalation, tariff escalation, escalation clause, escalation clauses, more...

Adjectives:
further, rapid, nuclear, military, gradual, major, dramatic, american, horizontal, sharp, steady

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Similar:
increasement, upping, escalade, uplift, upgrade, incrementation, rise, reaggravation, scaleup, appreciation, more...

Opposite:
de-escalation, deescalation

Types:
arms race, tit-for-tat, spiral, more...

Phrases:
dose escalation, Cost escalation, tariff escalation, escalation clause, escalation clauses, escalation ladder, privilege escalation, de escalation, on escalation, Escalation of commitment, more...

Adjectives:
further, rapid, nuclear, military, gradual, major, dramatic, american, horizontal, sharp, steady

Colors:
    red,     orange,     yellow,     crimson,     scarlet, more...



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