Lift definition

Lift means any permanent plant (or plant that is intended to be permanent) which is in, or attached to, a building or structure and by means of which persons, goods or materials may be raised or lowered within or on a car cage or a platform and the movement of which is restricted by a guide or guides and includes an apparatus in the nature of a chair lift, escalator, moving walk or stairway lift and any supporting structure, machinery, equipment, gear, lift well, enclosures and entrances;

Lift means a device or system with a platform that can be raised and lowered to provide passenger access between the floor of a passenger compartment and the ground or kerb.

Lift means a mechanically guided car, platform or transport for persons and materials between two or more levels in a vertical or substantially vertical direction.

Examples of Lift in a sentence

• Lift bus drivers shall have the option of retaining their lift bus positions from the preceding year provided the position continues except any lift driver who fails to turn in a completed Form T-8 by August 1 of a new school year shall have no right to retain his/her position.

• Lift buses, 35-passenger buses, and 65-passenger buses shall be offered to bus drivers who are assigned the appropriate type of bus at the time the offer is made.

• Lift bus drivers shall have the opportunity to elect such retention prior to the annual route bidding process.

More Definitions of Lift

Lift means an appliance designed to transport persons or materials between two or more levels in a vertical or substantially vertical direction, by means of a guided car platform.

Lift means a conveyance device covered under the scope of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) A18.1a – Safety Standard for Platform Lifts and Stairway Chair- lifts.

Lift means a process to assist a person with a person with a disability to board and deplane an aircraft with the use of a device that is carried by two or more individuals other than the passenger.

Lift means a layer of placed materials, including a layer of compacted clay in a landfill liner or cap, or a layer of waste in a landfill.

Lift means a device consisting of a power-driven endless belt, provided with steps or platforms and handholds attached to it for the transportation of persons from floor to floor.

Lift means an accumulation of waste that is compacted into a unit and over which cover is placed.

Lift means a layer of cells covering a designated area of a solid waste land disposal facility.