ladder
2 ENTRIES FOUND:
plural
ladders
plural
ladders
Britannica Dictionary definition of LADDER
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1
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a device used for climbing that has two long pieces of wood, metal, or rope with a series of steps or rungs between them
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see also stepladder
2
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a series of steps or stages by which someone moves up to a higher or better position
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He was moving up the corporate ladder.
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climbing the social ladder
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She worked her way up from the lowest rung on the economic ladder.
3
— ladder
verb, ladders; laddered; laddering British [no object]-
My stockings laddered.
