Shabbat elevator

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Shabbat elevator (plural Shabbat elevators)

  1. (engineering, Judaism) An elevator which works in a special mode, operating automatically, to satisfy the Jewish law requiring Jews to abstain from operating electrical switches on Shabbat.

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