Definitions
a stairway whose steps move continuously on a circulating belt
Word origin
From the former trademark Escalator, created by American inventor Charles Seeberger in 1900, from Latin ē- (“from, out of”) + scala (“ladder”) + -tor, which forms nouns of agency; see the appendix. Broader usage may be influenced by its derivative escalate, by surface analysis, escalate + -or. For an alternative etymology, see the Online Etymology Dictionary.
Used in a sentence
“Fourth, communication researchers study the role of stress and negative attitudes as key contributors to conflict, anger as an escalator of conflict, and emotional residues as barriers to reconciliation.”
“There is a plastic molly-guard covering the escalator's shutdown button to prevent little kids from pushing it and stopping the escalator.”
“Lots of people fell for the pitch that real estate was an up-only escalator into the American Dream”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Moving stairs”9 letters
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