lockstep
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noun
1.
a way of marching in very close file, in which the leg of each person moves with and closely behind the corresponding leg of the person ahead.
2.
a rigidly inflexible pattern or process.
adjective
3.
rigidly inflexible: a lockstep educational curriculum.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a method of marching in step such that the men follow one another as closely as possible |
| 2. | chiefly (US), (Canadian) a standard procedure that is closely, often mindlessly, followed |
| 3. | in lockstep with progressing at exactly the same speed and in the same direction as other people or things, esp as a matter of course rather than by choice |
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Lockstep
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
Example sentences
In an officer's career, the first two promotions occur in lockstep at about two and four years of service.
Energy and economic growth always grew in lockstep, went the conventional argument, and to think otherwise was dangerously naive.
Gold and gold-mining shares used to rise and fall in lockstep.
Two small segments of the falling stream don't fall in lockstep.
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