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Way of marching in tight formation
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lockstep
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In the US, lockstep marching or simply lockstep is marching in a very close single file in such a way that the leg of each person in the file moves in the same way and at the same time as the corresponding leg of the person immediately in front of him, ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Hayworth is one of the many first-term Republican foot soldiers who proudly fall into lockstep behind Rep. ▪ If both are in lockstep mentally, it will be a long, exhausting struggle. ▪ Skies darken, in lockstep with Sampras' ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a standard procedure that is followed mindlessly; "the union's support had been in lockstep for years" a manner of marching in file in which each person's leg moves with and behind the corresponding leg of the person ahead; "the prisoner's ankles were ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context military English) A step whereby the toe of one man is brought very close to the heel of the man in front. 2 (context figuratively English) Close connection, unison, rigid synchronization. 3 An inflexible, rigid or stifling pattern.
Usage examples of lockstep.
Steward thought, marching in lockstep along the third level of the Vesta mainline centrifuge, Steward at the ardis, cleaving apart the Brighter Suns citizens.
At work, my business life has been spent in lockstep with an incredible group of Wal-Mart associates who have put up with all my aggravation and bullheadedness and pulled together to make what once appeared truly impossible now seem expected and routine.
Programmers sometimes assume a lockstep timing that does not exist in a free-wheeling, multitasking world.
Davin started to suggest they continue the search for the missing droids on their own instead of joining the rest of the detachment, when the rest of Zeta squad marched around the corner in lockstep, completing their circuit of the perimeter.
The two of them crowded against me, walking in a lockstep that forced me to trot along.
As the last of us left the UMS environs, stepping over a'dimly lighted boundary marker into a wider and even older tunnel, we clasped hands on shoulders and half-marched, half-danced in lockstep.
With vast libraries of data available to him via computerized information retrieval systems, with his own tapes and video units, his own language laboratory and his own electronically equipped study carrel, he will be freed, for much of the time, of the restrictions and unpleasantness that dogged him in the lockstep classroom.