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ladder
[ lad-er ]
noun
- a structure of wood, metal, or rope, commonly consisting of two sidepieces between which a series of bars or rungs are set at suitable distances, forming a means of climbing up or down.
- something resembling this.
- a means of rising, as to eminence:
the ladder of success.
- a graded series of stages or levels in status; a hierarchical order of position or rank:
high on the political ladder.
- Nautical. companionway ( def 1 ).
- Chiefly British. a run in a stocking.
verb (used with object)
- to climb or mount by means of a ladder:
to ladder a wall.
- to furnish with a ladder:
to ladder a water tower.
- Chiefly British. to cause a run in (a stocking).
verb (used without object)
- Chiefly British. to get a run, as in a stocking.
- to gain in popularity or importance:
He laddered to the top of his profession.
ladder
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noun
- a portable framework of wood, metal, rope, etc, in the form of two long parallel members connected by several parallel rungs or steps fixed to them at right angles, for climbing up or down
- any hierarchy conceived of as having a series of ascending stages, levels, etc
the social ladder
- anything resembling a ladder
- ( as modifier )
ladder stitch
- Also calledrun a line of connected stitches that have come undone in knitted material, esp stockings
verb
- to cause a line of interconnected stitches in (stockings, etc) to undo, as by snagging, or (of a stocking) to come undone in this way
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Origin of ladder1
Idioms and Phrases
see bottom of the ladder .Example Sentences
She's sitting in a safe seat in the Senate, but Britt likely has to kiss goodbye her hopes of climbing the power ladder even higher.
Ms Pegg had been a "rising star" in the Prison Service, climbing the career ladder from graduate entrant to prison governor in six years, Preston Crown Court was told.
Wales is the most difficult part of Great Britain for first-time buyers to get onto the property ladder, according to new data.
But he caught a break on the first step of the minor league ladder when John Boles, a special assistant with the Mariners, saw Bantz play for Seattle’s rookie-level team in Pulaski, Va.
With odds stacked against those trying to climb the ladder, for many Nigerians the only realistic path to a better life is to leave.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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