0 (especially of a group of soldiers) marching very close together, with each person moving the same leg at the same time and in the same way as the person in front:
Hundreds of guerrillas marching in lockstep formed a guard of honour for the freed rebels.
Then came the rhythmic sound of boots stomping in lockstep across a marsh.
Usually Republicans are in lockstep with their party's candidate, with 85% or 90% support.
They are not prepared to march in lockstep with the campaign.
He said that he and the rest of the board were in lockstep behind their leader.
1 showing complete agreement with someone or something and doing exactly what someone wants you to do:
Once all students were capable of operating the tape decks, data collection proceeded, lockstep, one item at a time.
With the actual parliamentary data, differentiating policy distance from horizon effects became even more straightforward because the two no longer move in lockstep.
This is a flawed approach inasmuch as it assumes there is a lockstep, monotonic relationship between population growth and deforestation.
Casual observation suggests that interest rates across countries do not move in lockstep and supports the model's view of a local interest rate.
Yet, in the following comparison of the face and goat figures, the pattern we see suggests that these vowels are leveling, as it were, in lockstep with one another.
Students have been expected to work in lock-step with the teacher orchestrating what students do to a very high degree.
Ideally, only a single field needs to be identified, the rest following the pattern in lock-step.
Alternatively, some law firms implement a lockstep compensation system starting with partners or partner-track associates.
