: one or more flights of stairs usually with landings to pass from one level to another
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Other projects include bringing interior classroom doors up to code, installing fire doors on each side of the stairways, installing a sprinkler system and tuckpointing the building to help keep moisture out.
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Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2024
About two weeks before the fire, the builders removed a temporary stairway that had been near the spot where Sherrill and Holmes were installing windows and doors on the day of the fire, according to the lawsuit filed by their families.
—Ames Alexander, Charlotte Observer, 14 May 2024
The mitigation proposed for the project is a beach access trail with either a switchback ramp or a concrete stairway over the bluffs and down to the beach between 7th and 8th streets.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2024
What to know about the tours Restrictions on children: Children should be 5 years old and able to climb stairways and ladders without assistance.
—Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 6 May 2024
In the 1990s a resident petition shuttered the stairway to the public.
—Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 6 May 2024
The most coveted Record Store Day exclusives in the country may be culled from inside a cramped music shop accessed by a narrow cement stairway sandwiched between an Asian Spa and a storefront travel agency and perched above a pharmacy.
—Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2024
The two workers who died were more than 460 feet from the only stairway exit, one citation said.
—Ames Alexander, Charlotte Observer, 16 Apr. 2024
The videos, which have no sound, show the two making contact in front of the stairway doors, Mr. Sanchez slightly taller and considerably stockier.
—John Leland John Leland, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2024
About two weeks before the fire, the builders removed a temporary stairway that had been near the spot where Sherrill and Holmes were installing windows and doors on the day of the fire, according to the lawsuit filed by their families.
—Ames Alexander, Charlotte Observer, 14 May 2024
The mitigation proposed for the project is a beach access trail with either a switchback ramp or a concrete stairway over the bluffs and down to the beach between 7th and 8th streets.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2024
What to know about the tours Restrictions on children: Children should be 5 years old and able to climb stairways and ladders without assistance.
—Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 6 May 2024
In the 1990s a resident petition shuttered the stairway to the public.
—Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 6 May 2024
The most coveted Record Store Day exclusives in the country may be culled from inside a cramped music shop accessed by a narrow cement stairway sandwiched between an Asian Spa and a storefront travel agency and perched above a pharmacy.
—Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2024
The two workers who died were more than 460 feet from the only stairway exit, one citation said.
—Ames Alexander, Charlotte Observer, 16 Apr. 2024
The videos, which have no sound, show the two making contact in front of the stairway doors, Mr. Sanchez slightly taller and considerably stockier.
—John Leland John Leland, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
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stairway
noun
stair·way
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: one or more flights of stairs usually with landings to pass from one level to another
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