ladder

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noun

1 piece of equipment for climbing up sth

ADJECTIVE

▪ rickety

▪ metal, wooden

▪ long, tall

▪ loft (esp. BrE), rope

▪ fire-escape

VERB + LADDER

▪ ascend, clamber up, climb, climb up, go up, mount, scale

▪

He went up the ladder onto the deck.

▪ come down, descend, go down

▪ put up

▪

We put up the ladder against the wall.

▪ fall off

PREPOSITION

▪ on a/the ladder, up a/the ladder

▪

She was up a ladder fixing the roof.

▪ down a/the ladder

▪

I was standing lower down the ladder.

▪ ladder to

▪

the ladder to the gallery

PHRASES

▪ the bottom of a ladder, the foot of a ladder, the top of a ladder

▪ a rung of a ladder, a step of a ladder

▪

Several of the ladder's rungs were broken.

2 levels in a system

ADJECTIVE

▪ economic, evolutionary, social

▪

the people at the top of the social ladder

▪ career, corporate, promotion

▪ housing, property (both BrE)

VERB + LADDER

▪ ascend, climb, move up

▪

She was anxious to move up the promotion ladder.

▪ get onto

PREPOSITION

▪ higher up the ladder

▪

creatures higher up the evolutionary ladder

▪ lower down the ladder

▪ ladder of

▪

the ladder of fame

▪ ladder to

▪

His good looks helped him on the ladder to success.

PHRASES

▪ get one foot on the ladder, have one foot on the ladder (both esp. BrE)

▪

He finally managed to get one foot on the career ladder.

▪ a rung on the ladder, a step on the ladder

▪

the old problem of how to get onto the first step on the ladder

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verb

Ladder is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑tights

Ladder is used with these nouns as the object: ↑stocking, ↑tights