0 present participle of sideline
1 If a sports player is sidelined they are prevented from playing or competing, and can only watch:
Johnson has been sidelined through injury.
He was sidelined after criticizing the policy.
Freyhofer concentrates on the medical experiments, sidelining such crimes as 'euthanasia' and enforced sterilisation.
Careers officers and advisers should promote the armed services as a positive career instead of sidelining them.
That can lead to recriminations, retaliation, unreasonable discrimination, failure to promote, sidelining and all the other things that some good public servants experience.
It is also prepared to abolish export subsidies and duty on imports from developing countries, which will result in the sidelining of our agricultural products.
Sidelining this section of the debate once again will not help us, in my opinion, to break the deadlock.
Very little has been left out under what is known as the sidelining procedures.
I accept that the question of sidelining is a significant issue here.
It may be consistent with what we believe is the hidden agenda; namely, the sidelining of local authorities.
