Usually means: Moving staircase for easy ascent.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. escalator: Merriam-Webster
  2. escalator: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. escalator: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. escalator: Collins English Dictionary
  5. escalator: Vocabulary.com
  6. Escalator, escalator: Wordnik
  7. escalator: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Escalator: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. escalator: Wiktionary
  10. escalator: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. escalator: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. escalator: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Escalator, escalator: Dictionary.com
  14. escalator: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. escalator: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Escalator (album), Escalator: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. escalator: Rhymezone
  18. escalator: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. escalator: FreeDictionary.org
  20. escalator: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. escalator: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. escalator: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. escalator: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Escalator, escalator: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Anything that escalates.
noun:  A motor-driven mechanical device consisting of a continuous loop of steps that automatically conveys people from one floor to another.
noun:  An upward or progressive course.
noun:  An escalator clause.
verb:  (intransitive, informal) To move by escalator.

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