service elevator

American  

noun

1. an elevator for the use of servants and delivery people and for carrying large items.

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Example Sentences

Miss Lacey looked us over once more before we crowded into the service elevator and lined up again in the corridor outside the pavilion.

From Literature

One agent took the man’s backpack as they handcuffed him and swiftly took him down a service elevator.

From Los Angeles Times

They directed him off to the side and behind doors that led to a service elevator.

From Los Angeles Times

They had both separately fled to a service elevator with their respective bands at the time and became friends, then roommates, then music partners.

From Los Angeles Times

As Oates tells it in his 2017 memoir, both men were performing in separate bands at a sock hop in Philadelphia when gunfire broke out and they ended up in a service elevator together.

From New York Times