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escalator   (TTS Sound)

The noun escalator has 2 senses

• escalator clause, escalator -- (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))


• escalator, moving staircase, moving stairway -- (a stairway whose steps move continuously on a circulating belt)