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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a standard procedure that is followed mindlessly;
- Example: "the union's support had been in lockstep for years"

2. a manner of marching in file in which each person's leg moves with and behind the corresponding leg of the person ahead;
- Example: "the prisoner's ankles were so chained together that they could only march in lockstep"


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

lockstep n 1: a standard procedure that is followed mindlessly; "the union's support had been in lockstep for years" 2: a manner of marching in file in which each person's leg moves with and behind the corresponding leg of the person ahead; "the prisoner's ankles were so chained together that they could only march in lockstep"