Definition of "multistory" [multistory]

• Having several stories: a multistory hotel. (adjective)

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• "Each firefighter — wearing 50 pounds of gear, including an air pack — starts with an additional 45-pound hose pack (sometimes called an "apartment pack" or "hotel pack," a set of preconnected hoses used to fight fires in multistory hotels and apartments) on his shoulder and has to run up 63 steps to the top of a five-story tower."
• "A multistory building that guards said served as Gadhafi's library and office was turned into a pile of twisted metal and broken concrete slabs."
• "Other more recent projects by Gwathmey Siegel, which employs 25 architects, include the 22-story United States Mission to the United Nations; the Setai Fifth Avenue, which is opening next month; and a multistory residential project, Soho Mews."