0 to step to the side in order to avoid something, especially being hit: --
1 to avoid something: --
A cap on party funding nationally will have no effect if it can be sidestepped in the first six months of a campaign.
Most of them he answered, but one or two, quite understandably, he sidestepped and avoided answering.
All of these have been conceived precisely for the purpose of sidestepping the capital adequacy and transparency requirements we impose on banks.
When it is ignored, undermined or sidestepped by key international players, its ability to do what those who formed it intended is dramatically reduced.
He did not answer, but sidestepped the request.
When he sits down exhausted, the problems have been neatly sidestepped, and no more.
He neatly sidestepped the question by saying that some of the figures that he would produce would be reassuring.
The nuclear issue can no longer be dealt with by sidestepping public opinion, which is increasingly unfavourable towards it.
