From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpivot on/around something phrasal verbDEPEND/IT DEPENDSto depend on or be based on one important thing, event, or idea His argument will pivot on the growing cost of legal fees. → pivot→ See Verb table
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pivot on/around • She pivoted on her hands so that she was facing the other direction.• And our outlook on life from now until we join the feathered choir pivots on the answer.• I stared up into the tree, watching the white bottoms of his sneakers pivot on the branch he stood on.• Since 1973, Coutts' support of Virgin had been pivoted on the cashflow generated by Tubular Bells.• The entire body of the dinosaur would have been pivoted around the hip girdle.• Health is the pivot around which an absolute concept of poverty revolves.• Nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them became the pivot around which much of the Cold War revolved.• Their false show, like that of Iago, is the pivot on which the whole action turns. 