Clues for the word "PIVOT"
We've had 65 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 159 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on December 31, 2025.
Definition of pivot
- n. - A fixed pin or short axis, on the end of which a wheel or other body turns.
- n. - The end of a shaft or arbor which rests and turns in a support; as, the pivot of an arbor in a watch.
- n. - Hence, figuratively: A turning point or condition; that on which important results depend; as, the pivot of an enterprise.
- n. - The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place whike the company or line moves around him in wheeling; -- called also pivot man.
- v. t. - To place on a pivot.
Referring Clues
- Come about
- Basketball position
- Center's position
- Court position
- Turning point
- Basketball maneuver
- Offensive basketball position
- Move on a court or a diamond
- Center position, in basketball
- Swivel
- Swing around
- Turn on an axis
- Spin around
- See 39-Across
- Turn on a shaft
- Turn on one foot
- Revolving door feature
- Fulcrum
- Turn on a dime
- Turning point?
- Scissors feature
- Whirl on one foot
- Basketball move
- Rotating point
- See 7-Across
- Hoopster's tactic
- Court maneuver
- Point of rotation
- What to do at second to turn two
- Turn on a point
- Whirl
- Toe, during a pirouette
- Pirouette, essentially
- Rotation point
- Revolution in basketball?
- Abrupt realignment of policy priorities
- Turn on one foot, in basketball
- Wheel
- Central position
- Cagey debater's tactic
- Axis
- Central point on which things turn
- Revolve
- Pin, centre of revolution
- Turning pin
- Central turning point
- Basketball center, informally
- Some chap I voted for - everything depends on him
- Religious addict as linchpin?
- Turn
- Axle
- Change direction sharply
- Something turned on
- Turning maneuver
- Change direction
- Turn on the spot
- Turn like a Rocket
- Shift strategies
- Change strategies
- Swing about
- Not answer a question directly, as a politician might
- Make a quick policy change
- Shortstop's double play move
- Try a different tack
- Completely change course, in business jargon
Last Seen In
- New York Times - December 31, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 15, 2025
- Mirror Mini - December 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 01, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - August 19, 2025
- Your Life Choices - August 08, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - April 27, 2025
- New York Times - April 13, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - March 07, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - February 20, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - January 27, 2025
- Your Life Choices - January 12, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - December 31, 2024
- USA Today - November 24, 2024
- New York Times - October 07, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 13, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - September 03, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - August 15, 2024
- LA Times - August 11, 2024
- LA Times - July 09, 2024
- New York Times - May 09, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - March 07, 2024
- LA Times - March 02, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - November 03, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - October 31, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - October 02, 2023
- USA Today - August 13, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - August 08, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - July 28, 2023
- And in 129 more crossword puzzles...