0 past simple and past participle of straddle
1 to sit or stand with your legs on either side of something:
He has given only a small number of weeks, which straddled the local elections, and authorities in the area are finding it very difficult to make representations in time.
Their gardens, streets and schools and the lives that people in so many parts of my constituency lead are, frankly, straddled by overhead lines.
For example, would an offence be committed if a dog's stools straddled the gutter and the kerb?
It is not possible to give a precise sterling equivalent since payments during the year straddled the date of devaluation.
That shortcoming will be familiar to those whose employment has straddled both public and private sector industrial activity.
This straddled primary and secondary provision and separate information is not available.
What would happen when a planning development straddled local authorities or had a major impact on more than one local authority?
Disease straddled the divide, a threat to both, but perceived and dealt with differently by each.
