Look up: escalation

1. Escalation
   When a pension in payment is automatically increased at regular intervals by a fixed percentage rate or the increase of a specific index such as the Retail Price Index (RPI).
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2. escalation
   [n] - an increase to counteract a perceived discrepancy
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3. escalation
   progressive use of more harmful drugs Category: Medicine
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4. escalation
   noun an increase to counteract a perceived discrepancy; `higher wages caused an escalation of prices`; `there was a gradual escalation of hostilities`
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5. escalation
   (from the article `war`) ...similar. If individual states in competitive situations are governed by a short-term conception of their interests, acute conflicts between them ...
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6. Escalation
   1. Regarding the structure of tariffs, see tariff escalation. 2. In the context of a trade war, escalation refers to the increase in tariffs that occurs as countries retaliate again and again.
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7. Escalation
   Escalation is the phenomenon of something getting more intense step by step, for example a quarrel, or, notably, a war between states possessing weapons of mass destruction. Compare to escalator, a device that lifts something to a higher level. While the word escalation was used as early as in 1938...
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8. Escalation
   [film] Escalation is a 1968 Italian film written and directed by Roberto Faenza and starring actor Gabriele Ferzetti. == Cast == ...
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