linchpin
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Is linchpin a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (figuratively) A central cohesive source of stability and security; a person or thing that is critical to a system or organisation.Examples: "What is difficult to appreciate, however, is the discrepancy between his statement to the 'Manchester Guardian' correspondent and his known abhorance for party politics, which is the lynchpin of modern democracy."; "Community nurses have been described as the lynchpins of palliative care in the community."; "Second, QAnon, whose adherents have deep ties to countless other large communities, has become a linchpin in that ecosystem, and the absurdity of its claims in no way reduces its political influence."figuratively
verb (English)
1. (ambitransitive) To adopt as, or serve as, a central cohesive source of stability and security.Examples: "The poems turn fear of individual death into an audit of the costs of an aristocratic status quo which is linchpinned by a monarchy indulging in paradigms of social redress that have become cosmetic, opportunities for self-display rather than genuine justice."ambitransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary