Definizione monolingua

escalator

escalator (plural escalators)

1. A motor-driven mechanical device consisting of a continuous loop of steps that automatically conveys people from one floor to another.
2. An upward or progressive course.
   • 2009? ?Feb 19, Froma Harrop, “Housing aid may revive American dream for Latinos”, Houston Chronicle:

     Lots of people fell for the pitch that real estate was an up-only escalator into the American Dream

3. An escalator clause.

   They agreed to a cost-of-living escalator.

Definizione dizionario escalator

	scala mobile
	A motor-driven mechanical device consisting of a continuous loop of steps that automatically conveys people from one floor to another.

Altri significati:

An upward or progressive course.

An escalator clause.

mechanical device