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What does lockstep mean?

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Noun
  1. (military) A step whereby the toe of one man is brought very close to the heel of the man in front.
  2. (figuratively) Close connection, unison, rigid synchronization.
  3. An inflexible, rigid or stifling pattern.
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For the first third of a million years or so after the big bang, matter and energy in the universe moved in lockstep.
Although the hotel business tends to rise and fall in lockstep with the wider economy, not every hotelier is equally exposed.
Or students can enrol in the lockstep program where they take no more than six credit hours per semester and complete the program in five semesters.
You know, I don't have to get in lockstep with a party, and I don't have to hire party cronies.
By crushing the traditions of the Senate he would pack the courts, especially the supreme court, with lockstep ideologues.
Learning is a continual spiral rather than a lockstep ingestion of knowledge.

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