linchpin
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6.7
- noun
- /ˈlɪnʧˌpɪn/
:
pieza clave
- In our project, the manager was the linchpin who held the entire team together.
- serve as a linchpin
- linchpin of this effort
- linchpin of the U.S.
W from Russia and Romania was a linchpin of that system.
- W from Russia and Romania was a linchpin of that system.
- And I wanted to ask, what role does pride play for linchpins?
- Well, he's going to use the nature of God and the existence of God as a linchpin in the entire rest of his argument.
- The central linchpin of world geopolitics right now is the conflict between Ukraine and Russia.
- For Cato, the original sort of agenda was what we're going to take on Social Security, the linchpin of the welfare state.
- And Hegel is giving us once again, this is kind of a linchpin moment, a turning point where we're going to see things coming together.
- The holy text being true is so such a it's a linchpin right now.
- And I think that that is the linchpin is that somebody has to be threatened.
- Now, bright lines is like my absolute linchpin strategy.
- You know that you know, quo Maias Kogitati, known post it being the linchpin is really the central thing to his argument.
Examples
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In each case, personal rulership remains the linchpin to political stability.
Academic text (1994) -
Community college leaders serve as linchpins for framing meaning on campus.
Academic text (2010) -
Professional development has become something of a linchpin concern of the initiative.
Academic text (2007) -
The central linchpin of world geopolitics right now is the conflict between Ukraine and Russia.
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The U.S.-Japan alliance remains the linchpin of U.S. security strategy in Asia.
Academic text (2001) -
Pell grants serve as a linchpin in efforts to support student attendance.
Academic text (2012) -
Crucially, the spirits industry was a linchpin of the state's revenue, generating some 9% of its budget by the 1970s.
Academic text (2010) -
Undergraduate mathematics is the linchpin for the revitalization of mathematics education.
Academic text (1997) -
Unilateral sanctions, in fact, are the linchpin of our nonproliferation policy.
Academic text (1999) -
Clayton Harding is one of the linchpins of the media-industrial complex.
Synonyms
468
3.2
The most important central part of something
56
3.7
The strength or courage to do what is difficult
43
4.0
A person or thing that gives support and makes someone feel confident
33
7.0
The most important person who controls a group or activity
18
4.9
The main support that people or things depend on
6
5.1
The most important part that holds other parts together in a system
4
7.0
The person or thing that keeps a group together and working
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6.0
A person who plays a very important role in a team or project
How Central
Surface Forms
Etymology
Linchpin is also used for a person or thing that 'holds everything together' because the original linchpin was the pin that kept a wheel on its axle. So calling someone a linchpin means they are the most important part that makes a group or plan work.