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moving staircase

noun 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.

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@misc{moving_staircase_2026,
  title = {moving staircase},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/moving%20staircase},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}