elevator shaft

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   a vertical shaft in a building to permit the passage of an elevator from floor to floor

   Broadershaft

Questions about elevator shaft

What does elevator shaft mean?

elevator shaft means "a vertical shaft in a building to permit the passage of an elevator from floor to floor".

Is elevator shaft a common word?

elevator shaft is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.