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stairlift

nounB2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechneutral

Other forms: stairlifts

A stairlift is a seat that carries somebody up a staircase. Fit a stairlift.

It runs on a rail bolted to the treads rather than to the wall, which surprises people. A stairlift is often what lets somebody stay in their own house.

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Definitions of stairlift

  1. 1nounstairliftA seat that carries somebody up a staircase.B2

    “The stairlift was fitted in an afternoon.”

stairlift is a device.

Where it comes from

Stair plus lift. The rail is fixed to the stairs themselves, since a plaster wall will not hold the weight of a person and a motor.

From stair + lift.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Disability & Access

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stairlift in the wild

  • The station has an island platform, with step-free access via a stairlift for manual wheelchair users only.

    Hounslow West tube station

  • Stair lifts are known variously as stairlifts, stair gliders, stair-lifts, chair lifts (but distinct from the chairlift used by skiers) and by other names.

    Stair lift

  • Stannah Lifts Holdings Ltd is a provider of lifts, escalators and moving walkways and manufacturer of stairlifts and platform lifts.

    Stannah Lifts

  • The company makes various commercial lifts, but it is known for its stairlifts.

    Stannah Lifts

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.