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  1. Lock stepnoun

    Hence: (fig.) The slavish copying of one person's actions by another; as, party members who vote in lockstep with the leadership.

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  1. lock step

    Lockstep is a kind of marching that involves all marcher's legs moving in the same way at the same time.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Lock step

    a mode of marching by a body of men going one after another as closely as possible, in which the leg of each moves at the same time with the corresponding leg of the person before him

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  1. Lock step

    Lock Step refers to any of dance steps which involves the "locking" of the moving foot: the moving foot approaches to the standing foot, crosses in front of or behind it in the direction of the approach, stops close to the standing foot, and the weight is fully transferred to the moving foot. The closeness of the feet so that the lower legs of the dancer are "locked" together crossed is the main difference from other cross-steps used, e.g., in the Grapevine, where the moving foot travels away from the standing foot and the lower legs are separated. In the Whisk the crossing foot travels around the standing foot, rather than "locks" from the direction of approach. The term "lock step" or simply "lock" may be applied either to a single "locking" step or to a whole step pattern, e.g., of three steps, such as "step diagonally forward, lock behind, step diagonally forward". The footwork varies depending on the actual dance figure. Lock steps are popular in Quickstep.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of lock step in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of lock step in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of lock step in a Sentence

  1. Nitesh Shah:

    Copper is moving pretty much in lock step with the S&P 500 stock index.

  2. President Donald Trump:

    I think I've spoken a lot about this to Bill Barr, and we're totally in lock step with all of the many states that want to see much better health care.

  3. Kimberly Adams:

    She tried to distance herself from Trump the candidate, and I think we saw, since Trump has been in office, she has voted more than 90 percent of the time lock step with the president.

  4. Doug Guthrie:

    The Chinese government is sending a very clear signal to Chinese tech firms and to the rest of the world, that Chinese organizations must work in lock-step with The Chinese government, companies that have grown too big and global too quickly will be reined in to ensure that they are working together with the Chinese government's priorities.

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