Julia Horowitz, CNN, 8 June 2022 More than two years into a pivot to widespread remote work, many companies are still deciding on pay differentials for employees who moved during the pandemic to locations across the country. Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2022 Even big chains like Target have been caught off guard by the pace and scale of the pivot. Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Picking more position players, however, hasn’t been an intentional pivot away from selecting only pitchers, according to the team’s scouting director Tim McIlvaine, who touched on the topic on Day 1 of the draft. In wider extended use, it can imply a change of direction ('The company pivoted towards marketing remote learning tools and resources'). The word evolved yet again in the 19th century to become a verb indicating the act of turning, literally and figuratively, about a point ('The player pivoted and passed the ball' 'The plot pivots on revenge'). Adjectival use followed, always functioning as a synonym of the derivative pivotal describing things that are the pivot, that are vitally important or critical ('a pivot decision').

The noun then came to denote the action of turning about, oscillating, or balancing on or as if on a point ('the pivot of the golfer's body' 'a pivot in advertising strategy'). Later it was applied to any central person or thing around which action revolves. It began as a noun in the 14th century designating a shaft or pin on which something turns ('The chair turns on a pivot'). Pivot is a French borrowing that slowly evolved grammatically in the English language.

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