escalation

English

Etymology

From escalate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈɛs.kəˌleɪ.ʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

escalation (countable and uncountable, plural escalations)

1. The act of escalating.
2. An increase or rise, especially one to counteract a perceived discrepancy.
   • 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian‎^[1]:

     Thousands of violent videos are still available on the internet, according to Alexander, who claims they lead to an escalation in offline tensions between rival gangs. "I believe some young people are losing their lives as result of this material on the internet," she said.

3. A deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict.
4. (customer support) The reassignment of a difficult customer problem to someone whose job is dedicated to handling such cases.
   • 2003, Garry Schultz, The Customer Care and Contact Center Handbook, →ISBN, page 229:

     The manager ensures that the escalation team generates a continuous stream of root cause analysis exercises and the subsequent corrective actions.

   • 2016, Francoise Tourniaire, The Art of Support, →ISBN, page 154:

     Resolving escalations tends to require large amounts of time and energy from the support engineer working on an escalation and from the manager driving it. If those individuals are also required to attend to other issues, they will either neglect other customers (not good) or do a poor job of driving the escalation (very bad).

Derived terms

• escalation dominance
• escalation plan
• horizontal escalation
• privilege escalation
• re-escalation
• vertical escalation

 

Related terms

• de-escalation
• escalatory

Translations

an increase or rise, especially one to counteract a perceived discrepancy

• Bulgarian: повиша́ване (bg) n (povišávane), пока́чване (bg) n (pokáčvane)
• Dutch: escalatie (nl)
• Finnish: yltyminen (fi), kärjistyminen (fi), eskalaatio, eskaloituminen
• German: Eskalation (de) f
• Polish: eskalacja (pl) f, nasilenie (pl) n
• Russian: повыше́ние (ru) n (povyšénije), увеличе́ние (ru) n (uveličénije), рост (ru) m (rost)

a deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: تَصْعِيد m (taṣʕīd)
• Armenian: էսկալացիա (hy) (ēskalacʻia), սրում (hy) (srum)
• Belarusian: эскала́цыя f (eskalácyja)
• Bulgarian: ескала́ция (bg) f (eskalácija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 升級 (zh) (shēngjí), 擴大／扩大 (zh) (kuòdà), 擴戰／扩战 (kuòzhàn)

• Dutch: escalatie (nl) f
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: eskalaatio, eskaloituminen, laajeneminen (fi), kiihtyminen (fi)
• French: escalade (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Eskalation (de) f
• Greek: κλιμάκωση (el) f (klimákosi)
• Hungarian: kiterjesztés (hu), eszkaláció (hu)
• Japanese: エスカレーション (esukarēshon), 拡大 (ja) (かくだい, kakudai)
• Korean: 에스컬레이션 (eseukeolleisyeon), 확대(擴大) (ko) (hwakdae), 확전(擴戰) (hwakjeon)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: eskalacja (pl) f
• Romanian: escaladare (ro) f
• Russian: эскала́ция (ru) f (eskalácija), обостре́ние (ru) n (obostrénije)
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: escalada (es) f, escalamiento (es) m
• Swedish: eskalering (sv) c, upptrappning (sv) c
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: ескала́ція f (eskalácija)

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English escalation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.skaˈlɛʃ.ʃon/
• Rhymes: -ɛʃʃon

Noun

escalation f (invariable)

1. escalation (all senses)

Anagrams

• anelastico