moving staircase

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Noun

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moving staircase (plural moving staircases)

  1. (UK) An escalator.
    • 2008, John Irwin, Modern Britain: An Economic and Social History, page 27:
      In terms of the income scale British society has been compared to a group of people on a moving staircase. While the staircase as a whole moves upwards the relative position of the people on it remains largely unchanged.