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escalation
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escalation [‚es·kə′lā·shən]
(industrial engineering)
Provision in actual or estimated costs for inflational increases in the costs of equipment, materials, labor, and so on, over those specified in an original contract.


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As vacancy rates and rents continue to escalate in midtown, tenants are beginning to consider moves to Downtown where lease terms are more economical.
Transformed into homopolymers and copolymers, their worth is said to escalate dramatically.
There's no authority over them, so you can't come down on them hard when they escalate force," said Brigadier General Karl R.
 
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