march

Universal Words verb, noun verb 1 [usually +adv./prep.] to walk with stiff regular steps like a soldier: [V] Soldiers were marching up and down outside the government buildings. * Quick march! (= the order to start marching) * [VN] They marched 20 miles to reach the capital. 2 [V+adv./prep.] to walk somewhere quickly in a determined way: She marched over to me and demanded an apology. 3 [VN+adv./prep.] to force sb to walk somewhere with you: The guards marched the prisoner away. * She was marched out of the door and into a waiting car. 4 [V] to walk through the streets in a large group in order to protest about sth SYNDEMONSTRATE IDIOMS get your marching orders (BrE, informal) to be ordered to leave a place, a job, etc. give sb their marching orders (informal) to order sb to leave a place, their job, etc. PHRASALVERBS march on to move on or pass quickly: Time marches on and we still have not made a decision. march on... to march to a place to protest about sth or to attack it: Several thousand people marched on City Hall. noun 1 [C] an organized walk by many people from one place to another, in order to protest about sth, or to express their opinions: protest marches * to go on a march compareDEMONSTRATION 2 [C] an act of marching; a journey made by marching: The army began their long march to the coast. 3 [sing.] the ~ of sth the steady development or forward movement of sth: the march of progress / technology / time 4 [C] a piece of music written for marching to: a funeral march IDIOMS on the march marching somewhere: The enemy are on the march moreatSTEALv.