escalader
French → English
(action) To scale: to climb over an obstacle, wall, or building using one's hands or a ladder.
Le voleur a escaladé la gouttière pour atteindre le balcon du deuxième étage.
(English) The thief scaled the gutter to reach the balcony on the second floor.
Ils arrivèrent à la muraille et durent l'escalader pour pénétrer dans la cité médiévale.
(English) They reached the wall and had to scale it to enter the medieval city.
(sport) To climb: to ascend a steep cliff, mountain face, or boulder, typically in the context of mountaineering.
Il escalade une paroi de calcaire dans une route classée au septième degré de difficulté.
(English) He is climbing a limestone wall on a route rated at the seventh degree of difficulty.
Chaque été, des milliers d'alpinistes tentent d'escalader les pics les plus dangereux des Alpes.
(English) Every summer, thousands of mountaineers attempt to climb the most dangerous peaks in the Alps.
(business) To escalate: to transfer a customer support request or technical issue to a more experienced professional or higher authority.
Si le premier niveau de support ne trouve pas de solution, il doit escalader le ticket au service ingénierie.
(English) If the first level of support cannot find a solution, they must escalate the ticket to the engineering department.
Le superviseur a décidé d'escalader la demande du client suite à la complexité du bug informatique.
(English) The supervisor decided to escalate the customer's request due to the complexity of the computer bug.
Entry ID: fr:en:escalader · Source: refined · Type: vocabulary