Čo znamená ladder v angličtine a aká je definícia ladder?

V tomto najautoritatívnejšom anglickom slovníku sa môžete naučiť ladder výslovnosť, gramatika a synonymá.

ladder Význam & definícia

0 a piece of equipment used for climbing up and down, that consists of two vertical bars or pieces of rope joined to each other by a set of horizontal steps:
- She was up a ladder, cleaning the window.
1 a series of increasingly important jobs or stages in a particular type of work or process:
- Once he started at Paramount in 1967, he moved rapidly up the corporate ladder.
- a first rung/step on the employment ladder
2 a long, vertical hole in a pair of tights or a stocking
3 (in particular sports) a system in which all the players who play regularly are given a position in a list and can improve their position by beating other players in that list:
- a squash ladder
4 If a pair of tights or a stocking ladders or if you ladder it, a long hole appears in it:
- Damn! That's the second pair of tights I've laddered today!
5 a piece of equipment used for climbing up and down, and consisting of two vertical bars joined by a set of horizontal steps:
- fig. In only a few years she managed to climb up the corporate ladder (= achieve success in the business world) to become a vice president.
6 a way of referring to a series of increasingly important jobs, or stages in a particular type of work or process:
- Most top executives had to climb the ladder.
- These entry-level jobs will offer you a chance to get your foot on the first rung of the employment ladder.
- First-time buyers are desperate to get on the housing ladder.

Getting up the ladder was easy enough - it was coming down that was the problem.
The ladder won't quite reach the top of the wall.
My son broke a rib when he fell off a ladder.
That ladder doesn't look safe.
One of the steps on the ladder is broken.
Rising levels of net disposable income allowed town-dwellers to climb the housing ladder, thereby reducing some at least of the ravages of infection.
Those who could adjust often ascended the social ladders that were newly created.
Both of these suffixes are obligatory, and show respect for those higher up on the social-stratification ladder.