Usually means: Avoids directly addressing or confronting.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word sidesteps:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. sidesteps: Merriam-Webster
  2. sidesteps: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sidesteps: Collins English Dictionary
  4. sidesteps: Vocabulary.com
  5. Sidesteps, sidesteps: Wordnik
  6. sidesteps: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. sidesteps: Wiktionary
  8. sidesteps: Dictionary.com
  9. sidesteps: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. sidesteps: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sidesteps: Legal dictionary

(Note: See sidestep as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (sidestep)

noun:  A step to the side.
noun:  A physical motion or metaphorical act to avoid or dodge something.
verb:  (intransitive) To step to the side.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To avoid or dodge.
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