lockstep   (TTS Sound)

The noun lockstep has 2 senses

• lockstep -- (a standard procedure that is followed mindlessly; "the union's support had been in lockstep for years")


• lockstep -- (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")