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moving staircases

moving staircases is the plural of moving staircase.

Meaning of moving staircase

Noun

moving staircase (plural moving staircases)

  1. (UK) An escalator.
    • 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.2008, John Irwin, Modern Britain: An Economic and Social History, page 27

Questions about moving staircases

What is moving staircases the plural of?
Moving staircases is the plural of moving staircase.

Words near moving staircases in the dictionary

  1. moving someone to tears
  2. moving south
  3. moving spirit
  4. moving spirits
  5. moving staircase
  6. moving staircases
  7. moving target
  8. moving targets
  9. moving the deckchairs on the Titanic
  10. moving the dial
  11. moving the goal posts

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