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Meaning of elevator shaft | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Synonym of liftshaft.

Canada, US

Examples

“You know when winter comes to visit these big cities and / the wind starts howling through the elevator shafts”
“Any visitor to New York over the past few years will have witnessed this curious new breed of pencil-thin tower. Poking up above the Manhattan skyline like etiolated beanpoles, they seem to defy the laws of both gravity and commercial sense. They stand like naked elevator shafts awaiting their floors, raw extrusions of capital piled up until it hits the clouds.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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