moving staircase
English
Noun
moving staircase (plural moving staircases)
- 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.
- 2008, John Irwin, Modern Britain: An Economic and Social History (page 27)