0 present participle of sidetrack
1 to direct a person's attention away from an activity or subject towards another one that is less important:
I do not believe that by sidetracking the schools which are held to be good one will preserve them.
Is he not sidetracking the right of the people of this country to express a point of view which is widely felt?
One of the difficulties is the sidetracking of the family practitioner that is taking place.
Moreover, he is sidetracking management into having to cope with privatisation when it already has more than enough on its plate.
I hope very much that this will not be a way of sidetracking the problem or shutting the door towards action.
I do not believe in any circumstances in sidetracking the subject from his right to go to the courts.
That was a wonderful piece of sidetracking.
We are really sidetracking the point.
