Definitions for escalator

Overview of noun escalator

The noun escalator has 2 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)

1. 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))

2. escalator, moving staircase, moving stairway

(a stairway whose steps move continuously on a circulating belt)