Usually means: Change direction or strategy fundamentally.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. pivot: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pivot: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pivot: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pivot: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pivot: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pivot, pivot: Wordnik
  7. pivot: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Pivot, Pivot: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. pivot: Wiktionary
  10. pivot: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pivot: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pivot: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. pivot: Dictionary.com
  14. pivot (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pivot: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Pivot (Australian band), Pivot (TV channel), Pivot (TV network), Pivot (U.S. band), Pivot (album), Pivot (card game), Pivot: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pivot: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pivot: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. pivot: Rhymezone
  20. Pivot, pivot (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. pivot: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. pivot: Free Dictionary
  23. pivot: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. pivot: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Pivot: bizterms.net
  4. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Pivot: Investopedia
  6. pivot: Legal dictionary
  7. Pivot: Financial dictionary
  8. Pivot: WashingtonPost.com: Business

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pivot: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. PIVOT: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PIVOT: Acronym Finder
  2. pivot: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mathematical Programming (No longer online)
  2. pivot: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pivot: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Handball-Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)
  3. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  4. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  5. pivot: Golfer's Dictionary
  6. Pivot: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Locksmith Dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A thing on which something turns; specifically a metal pointed pin or short shaft in machinery, such as the end of an axle or spindle.
noun:  (figuratively, by extension) Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation.
noun:  Act of turning on one foot.
noun:  (military) The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place while the company or line moves around him in wheeling.
noun:  (roller derby) A player with responsibility for co-ordinating their team in a particular jam.
noun:  (computing) 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.
noun:  (computing) A pivot table.
noun:  (graphical user interface) Any of a row of captioned elements used to navigate to subpages, rather like tabs.
noun:  (mathematics) An element of a matrix that is used as a focus for row operations, such as dividing the row by the pivot, or adding multiples of the row to other rows making all other values in the pivot column 0.
noun:  (Canadian football) A quarterback.
noun:  (handball) A circle runner.
noun:  (US, politics) A shift during a general election in a political candidate's messaging to reflect plans and values more moderate than those advocated during the primary.
verb:  (intransitive) To turn on an exact spot.
verb:  To make a sudden or swift change in strategy, policy, etc.
verb:  (business slang) To change the direction of a business, usually in response to changes in the market.
verb:  (US, politics) To shift a political candidate's messaging during a general election to reflect plans and values more moderate than those advocated during the primary.

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