Meaning

1 senses

  1. To change duties without a change of pay and conditions.

    He's no longer up to the job, move him sideways.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. The poles are strange, beautiful places, where the sun moves sideways, nights last for months, and bone-chilling winds scar the landscape.

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Forms

moving sideways, moves sideways, moved sideways, moved sideways
Base formmove sideways · to move sideways
3rd person singularmoving sideways
Present participlemoves sideways
Past simplemoved sideways
Past participlemoved sideways

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theymove sideways
he, she, itmoving sideways

Past simpleLesson

all personsmoved sideways

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave moved sideways
he, she, ithas moved sideways

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill move sideways

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
mouthwashmoveA2movementB1moverB2movieA1moviegoer

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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