accommodation ladder

English

Noun

accommodation ladder (plural accommodation ladders)

An accommodation ladder.

1. (nautical) a flight of stairs or a ladder for lowering over the side of a ship for access to and from a small boat.
2. The property ladder, without the implication of necessarily owning the place where one lives.

Translations

a flight of stairs or a ladder for lowering over the side of a ship

• Danish: faldereb n
• Dutch: valreep (nl) m
• German: Fallreep (de) n
• Hebrew: סֻלַּם הַבָּב (he) m (sulam habav), כֶּבֶשׁ (he) m (kevesh), גַּמְלָה (he) f (gamlah), אַסְכָּלָה (he) f (askalah)
• Irish: dréimire teile m
• Italian: barcarizzo m
• Manx: aarey yerree f
• Swedish: fallrep (sv) n