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单词 escalator
释义 escalator
 /es"keuh lay'teuhr/,  n.  
  1. Also called moving staircase, moving stairway. a continuously moving stairway on an endless loop for carrying passengers up or down.
  2. a means of rising or descending, increasing or decreasing, etc., esp. by stages: the social escalator.
  3. See escalator clause.
  adj.  
  4. of, pertaining to, or included in an escalator clause: The union demands escalator protection of wages.
 [1895-1900, Amer.; formerly a trademark; perh. ESCAL(ADE) + (ELEV)ATOR]
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