stridenoun
uk/straɪd/us/straɪd/stride noun (DEVELOPMENT)
[ C ] an important positive development:
The West made impressive strides in improving energy efficiency after the huge rises in oil prices during the 70s.
The group has made strides to expand internationally.
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Making progress and advancing
- a step forward idiom
- advance
- advancement
- ahead
- be cooking idiom
- betterment
- develop
- go great guns idiom
- graduate
- grow
- grow into sb/sth
- grow out of sth
- have come a long way idiom
- rise
- shape
- simmer
- speciation
- spread your wings idiom
- steer a course/path idiom
- step
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stride noun (STEP)
[ C ] a long step when walking or running:
She attributes her record-breaking speed to the length of her stride.
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Walking and walkers
- bring/call sth/sb to heel idiom
- cavalcade
- gait
- heel
- hike
- hiker
- hoof
- hoof it idiom
- jaywalk
- pace
- parade
- ramble
- sleepwalker
- step
- stretch
- stretch your legs idiom
- ticker-tape parade
- toddle
- trek
- walker
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stride noun (CLOTHES)
strides [ plural ] Australian English informal
trousers:
a new pair of strides
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Trousers
- bell-bottoms
- Bermuda shorts
- blue jeans
- bootcut
- breeches
- cutoff
- cycling shorts
- denim
- drainpipe
- dungarees
- flannel
- jodhpurs
- knickerbockers
- knickers
- leggings
- Levi's
- low-rise
- trews
- trouser
- trousers
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Idiom(s)
get into your stride
not break your stride
put sb off their stride/stroke
take sth in your stride
strideverb [ I usually + adv/prep ]
uk/straɪd/us/straɪd/strode, striddento walk somewhere quickly with long steps:
She strode purposefully up to the desk and demanded to speak to the manager.
He strode across/into/out of the room.
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Moving firmly on foot
- breeze
- clump
- flounce
- goose step
- lope
- march
- not break your stride idiom
- pace
- parade
- prance
- quick march! idiom
- sashay
- stamp
- stomp
- strode
- stump
- surefooted
- swagger
- troop
- waltz
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