Definition of "escalator" in inglés

noun

1. Anything that escalates.

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

   • There is a plastic molly-guard covering the escalator's shutdown button to prevent little kids from pushing it and stopping the escalator.

3. An upward or progressive course.

4. An escalator clause.

   • They agreed to a cost-of-living escalator.

verb

1. (intransitive, informal) To move by escalator.

   • We escalatored to the second floor.