sidestep
pronunciation
How to pronounce sidestep in British English:
UK [ˈsaɪdstep]
How to pronounce sidestep in American English:
US [ˈsaɪdˌstɛp]
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- Noun:
- a step to one side (as in boxing or dancing)
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- Verb:
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
Word Origin
- sidestep (n.)
- also side-step, 1757, "a stepping to the side" (originally in military drill), from side (adj.) + step (n.). The verb is recorded from 1895; the figurative sense is attested from 1900.
Example
- 1. Sidestep the unnecessary blows and mitigate those you can 't avoid .
- 2. To sidestep that prohibition , municipalities across the country have created off-the-books entities to do the borrowing .
- 3. Then - whether you 're a guy or a girl - use the info below to sidestep this kind of situation in your love life .
- 4. It is another sticky foreign-policy problem of the sort that china used to be able to sidestep .
- 5. It 's easier for a couple to sidestep a huge argument by not opening that pandora 's box .