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escalation en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˌɛs.kəˈleɪ.ʃən/ (Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
  • (UK) audio
  • /ˌes.kəˈlæɪ.ʃən/ (Australia, New-Zealand)

Etymology

Etymology tree English escalate Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ion English escalation From escalate + -ion.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The act of escalating.
  2. (countable, uncountable) An increase or rise, especially to counteract a perceived discrepancy.
    • Thousands of violent videos are still available on the internet, according to Alexander, who claims they lead to an escalation in offline tensions between rival gangs. "I believe some young people are losing their lives as result of this material on the internet," she said. 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian:
  3. (countable, uncountable) A deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict.
    • The 1840s saw a further escalation, with new laws treating most slave ships captured as pirates, and a number of military expeditions being mounted to destroy slaving centres on the African coast and depose, or even kill, remaining local kings and chiefs who had refused to end slavery in their territory. 2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 8:35 from the start, in Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2024:
  4. (countable, qualifier:support, uncountable) The reassignment of a difficult problem to someone whose job is dedicated to handling such cases.
    • The manager ensures that the escalation team generates a continuous stream of root cause analysis exercises and the subsequent corrective actions. 2003, Garry Schultz, The Customer Care and Contact Center Handbook, →ISBN, page 229:
    • Resolving escalations tends to require large amounts of time and energy from the support engineer working on an escalation and from the manager driving it. If those individuals are also required to attend to other issues, they will either neglect other customers (not good) or do a poor job of driving the escalation (very bad). 2016, Francoise Tourniaire, The Art of Support, →ISBN, page 154:

Forms

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Antonyms

de-escalation

Deriveds

escalation dominance · escalation of commitment · escalation hypothesis · escalation plan

Hyponyms

privilege escalation · vertical escalation · conflict escalation · horizontal escalation · cost escalation · re-escalation · technological escalation

Relateds

escalatory

Translations (51)

fi eskaloituminen (a deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict) · ja 拡大 (a deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict) · hy էսկալացիա (a deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict) · cmn 擴大 /扩大 (a deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict) · ru эскала́ция (a deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict) · es escalamiento (a deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict) · bg повиша́ване (an increase or rise, especially one to counteract a perceived discrepancy) · hu kiterjesztés (a deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict) · es escalada (a deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict) · sv upptrappning (a deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict) · fi eskaloituminen (an increase or rise, especially one to counteract a perceived discrepancy) · pl eskalacja (a deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict) · fi kiihtyminen (a deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict) · cmn 升級 /升级 (a deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict) · ar تَصْعِيد (a deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict) · tr tırmanış (a deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict) · fr escalade (a deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict) · tr tırmanma (a deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict) · it aumento del conflitto (a deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict) · hu eszkaláció (a deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict) · bg пока́чване (an increase or rise, especially one to counteract a perceived discrepancy) · pt escalada (a deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict) · bg ескала́ция (a deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict) · ko 에스컬레이션 (a deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict) · fi laajeneminen (a deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict) · hy սրում (a deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict) · ru повыше́ние (an increase or rise, especially one to counteract a perceived discrepancy) · pl nasilenie (an increase or rise, especially one to counteract a perceived discrepancy) · uk ескала́ція (a deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict) · fi eskalaatio (a deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict) · nl escalatie (a deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict) · nl escalatie (an increase or rise, especially one to counteract a perceived discrepancy) · fi eskalaatio (an increase or rise, especially one to counteract a perceived discrepancy) · be эскала́цыя (a deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict) · ru увеличе́ние (an increase or rise, especially one to counteract a perceived discrepancy) · ko 확전 (a deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict) · el κλιμάκωση (a deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict) · ru рост (an increase or rise, especially one to counteract a perceived discrepancy) · pl eskalacja (an increase or rise, especially one to counteract a perceived discrepancy) · ru обостре́ние (a deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict) · fi yltyminen (an increase or rise, especially one to counteract a perceived discrepancy) · fi kärjistyminen (an increase or rise, especially one to counteract a perceived discrepancy) · ja エスカレーション (a deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict) · scn scalata (a deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict) · it intensificazione (a deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict) · de Eskalation (an increase or rise, especially one to counteract a perceived discrepancy) · sv eskalering (a deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict) · de Eskalation (a deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict) · ro escaladare (a deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict) · ko 확대 (a deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict) · cmn 擴戰 /扩战 (a deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict)