Noun
- 1. escalator clause, escalator, article, clause
- usage: 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, stairway, staircase
- usage: a stairway whose steps move continuously on a circulating belt
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