stair-casing
n.— «The benefits of shared ownership schemes are…You can increase your share as time goes by, a process known as stair-casing.» —“How to get on the housing ladder” by Helen Adams BBC News May 1, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
If you’re going up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire, then you’re going up to bed. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Up the Hill to Bedfordshire, Down the Hall to the Cannes?” Grant, I was pleased recently to learn the term wooden...
Ron from Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, shares a family word he learned from his college roommate: asyou. The word asyou denotes “the second or third stair on the staircase” — in other words, the stair where you put things to remember to take them with...