- 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)
--1 is a kind of article, clause
- escalator, moving staircase, moving stairway - a stairway whose steps move continuously on a circulating belt
--2 is a kind of stairway, staircase, stairs, steps