English language

How to pronounce escalation in English?

Toggle Transcript
Type Words
Type of increase, step-up
Derivation escalate


higher wages caused an escalation of prices.
there was a gradual escalation of hostilities.

Examples of escalation

escalation
Provide level of contact for escalation of issues and problems by team members ?
From the jobview.monster.com
With the current escalation on the Golan Heights, that threat has been realised.
From the jewishnews.net.au
With a 3 percent annual escalation, we estimated a rise to $331 million by 2007.
From the orlandosentinel.com
An escalation could unravel the cease-fire which al-Sadr proclaimed last August.
From the newsobserver.com
Ability to manage critical situations with appropriate over site and escalation.
From the jobview.monster.com
It stops the escalation and lets us get on with things, at least for us it does.
From the washingtonpost.com
There is also a domestic component to the US escalation of tensions with Russia.
From the infowars.com
For the West, the Croat-Muslim escalation makes a paralyzing dilemma even worse.
From the time.com
However, it could be that al-Shabab is trying to provoke just such an escalation.
From the time.com
More examples
  • An increase to counteract a perceived discrepancy; "higher wages caused an escalation of prices"; "there was a gradual escalation of hostilities"
  • (escalate) increase in extent or intensity; "The Allies escalated the bombing"
  • Escalation is the phenomenon of something getting more intense step by step, for example a quarrel, or, notably, military presence and nuclear armament during the Cold War. (Compare to escalator, a device that lifts something to a higher level. ...
  • An escalator is a type of vertical transportation in the form of a moving staircase u2013 a conveyor transport device for carrying people between floors of a building. The device consists of a motor-driven chain of individually linked steps that move up or down on tracks, allowing the step treads to remain horizontal.
  • An increase or rise, especially one to counteract a perceived discrepancy; a deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict
  • (Escalations) come in two basic flavors:
  • (escalations) Workflow that checks at specified times or at regular intervals to see if there are any entries matching a specified condition and performs specified operations on all matching entries. ...
  • The mechanism in a lease which increases the rent, usually annually. May be set forth in fixed steps, tied to increases in operating expense, or to increases in the Consumer Price Index (CPI).
  • Determination of price adjustments based on increases or decreases to indexes specifically identified in the contract.