straddle
/ˈstræd·əl/ v [T]Definition
› to have or put your legs on either side of something: Grace straddled her chair. › To straddle something is also to be unable to decide which of two opinions about something is better, and so to partly support both opinions: The president has tried to straddle the issue of political fund-raising.
(Definition of straddle v from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
© Cambridge University Press)
Our dictionaries
Browse the Thesaurus
Browse the Dictionary
Word of the Day
a cloud on the horizon
something which threatens to cause problems or unhappiness in the future
Blog
Read our blog about how the English language behaves.
New Words
Find words and meanings that have just started to be used in English, and let us know what you think of them.
