lockstep

[ lok-step ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a way of marching in very close file, in which the leg of each person moves with and closely behind the corresponding leg of the person ahead.
a rigidly inflexible pattern or process.

lockstep

/ ˈlɒkˌstɛp /

a method of marching in step such that the men follow one another as closely as possible
a standard procedure that is closely, often mindlessly, followed
in lockstep with
progressing at exactly the same speed and in the same direction as other people or things, esp as a matter of course rather than by choice

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First recorded in 1795–1805; lock ¹ + step

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It comes down to having to set up new processes to keep in lockstep with how Apple’s framework functions.

At times, she has placed the only dissenting vote on a five-member board that tends to work together in lockstep.

It’s helped that the messaging between the experts and politicians has been more or less in lockstep since day one.

He shared this stock chart, which shows the London and Moscow shares in near lockstep since the start of the year.

It’s hard to imagine a recovery where the banks don’t rebound in lockstep with the rest of American business.

Yet they cannot reasonably believe that the rest of America will march in lockstep with them.

And demand (and sales) tends to rise in lockstep with the economy.

When a community is in the grips of a siege mentality, that sort of lockstep friendship may seem appealing.

What we were again thinking was here again are two characters who have for the most part been in lockstep for two years.

And as waves, they will produce characteristic interference patterns caused by waves arriving out of step or in lockstep.

I've thought iv thim whin th' lockstep was goin' in to dinner, an' prayed f'r th' day whin I might see ye again.

Flanked by guards, we cross the prison yard in close lockstep.

Breakfast is over; the lines form in lockstep, and march to the shops.

Often enough it is the choice of the gun on the shoulder, or, by and by, the stripes on the back in the lockstep gang.

Through the leveling influences of the educational lockstep such children at present are often lost in the masses.

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