pivot
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Is pivot a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (figuratively, by extension) Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation.Examples: "“The story of this adoption is, of course, the pivot round which all the circumstances of the mysterious tragedy revolved. Mrs. Yule had an only son, namely, William, to whom she was passionately attached ; but, like many a fond mother, she had the desire of mapping out that son's future entirely according to her own ideas.[…]”"broadlyfiguratively
2. (military) The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place while the company or line moves around him in wheeling.
3. (roller derby) A player with responsibility for co-ordinating their team in a particular jam.
4. (programming) An element of a set to be sorted that is chosen as a midpoint, so as to divide the other elements into two groups to be dealt with recursively.
5. (computing) A pivot table.
6. (graphical user interface) Any of a row of captioned elements used to navigate to subpages, rather like tabs.
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To turn on an exact spot.intransitive
2. To make a sudden or swift change in strategy, policy, etc.Examples: "Mr. Shah’s new business has signed up 25 New York City hotels and raised $1.5 million from angel investors and $3 million from a seed round. Yet three months into his new project, he has had to pivot again, realizing that his best customers are large businesses, not individuals."; "“Entrepreneurs usually have some inkling about a problem they can solve,” he said. “But typically they’re not exactly right. So if you survive long enough, you pivot and pivot and pivot and find what sticks.”"; "It was a fairly common strategy for startups in our space, but we were pivoting so frequently that it didn't quite work for us—if Nick found someone on Monday, by Friday we'd usually pivoted away from that sector so that it made no longer sense, and the advisor share paperwork we'd asked the lawyers to draw up would be left unfiled."slang
3. To make a sudden or swift change in strategy, policy, etc.US
Definition source: Wiktionary