noun
- 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.
- synonyms: escalator clause
- A stairway whose steps move continuously on a circulating belt.
- synonyms: moving staircase, moving stairway
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