The word of the day, its meaning, and its common usage.
To escalate
In standard English, “escalate” is a verb meaning “to increase rapidly” or “to become more and more intense”, as in: “The war has escalated.” In business English, it means “to refer something (such as a problem) to a higher level in an organization in the hope that it will be resolved”. For example, you could say: “It’s time to escalate that plan to upper management.”
