escalates
Meaning of escalates
verb
- To increase (something) in extent or intensity; to intensify or step up.
The shooting escalated the existing hostility.
- In technical support, to transfer a customer, a problem, etc. to the next higher level of authority
The tech 1 escalated the caller to a tech 2.
Information about escalates
- It is a verb.
- The singular form of escalates is: escalate.
- Languages in which escalates is used:
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Hyphenation of escalates
es-ca-lates
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- escalates is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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