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FOOD ELEVATOR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does food elevator mean?
• FOOD ELEVATOR (noun)
The noun FOOD ELEVATOR has 1 sense:
1. a small elevator used to convey food (or other goods) from one floor of a building to another
Familiarity information: FOOD ELEVATOR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A small elevator used to convey food (or other goods) from one floor of a building to another
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
dumbwaiter; food elevator
Hypernyms ("food elevator" is a kind of...):
elevator; lift (lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building)
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