- de-escalation
- noun see de-escalate
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
de-escalation
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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… … Wikipedia
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Escalation of commitment — was first described by Barry M. Staw in his 1976 paper, Knee deep in the big muddy: A study of escalating commitment to a chosen course of action .[1] More recently the term sunk cost fallacy has been used to describe the phenomenon where people… … Wikipedia
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escalation — index boom (increase), boom (prosperity), growth (increase), inflation (increase) … Law dictionary
escalation clause — UK US noun [C] COMMERCE, LAW ► ESCALATOR CLAUSE(Cf. ↑escalator clause) … Financial and business terms
escalation — /eskə leiʃn/, it. /eska leʃon/ s. ingl. (propr. scalata ), usato in ital. al femm. [intensificazione brusca, spec. di fenomeni negativi: e. di paura, della violenza ] ▶◀ aumento, crescendo, crescita, incremento, spirale. ↓ progressione.… … Enciclopedia Italiana
escalation — derived noun from ESCALATE (Cf. escalate); in the figurative sense it is from 1938, in reference to the battleship arms race among global military powers … Etymology dictionary
escalation — /eskaˈleʃʃon, ingl. ˌɛskəˈleɪʃən/ [vc. ingl., dal verbo to escalate «intensificare», a sua volta da escalade «ascesa, scalata»] s. f. inv. aumento progressivo, intensificazione, incremento, crescita, progressione, spirale, crescendo CONTR.… … Sinonimi e Contrari. Terza edizione
escalation — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ dramatic, major, serious ▪ rapid ▪ gradual ▪ further ▪ military … Collocations dictionary
escalation — escalate es‧ca‧late [ˈeskəleɪt] verb [intransitive] if amounts, prices etc escalate, they increase: • They saw costs escalating and sales slumping as the effect of rising oil prices hit the company. escalation noun [uncountable] : • The rapid… … Financial and business terms
