Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to pivot
Participle: pivotted
Gerund: pivotting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | pivot |
| you | pivot |
| he;she;it | pivots |
| we | pivot |
| you | pivot |
| they | pivot |
Perfect
| I | have pivotted |
| you | have pivotted |
| he;she;it | has pivotted |
| we | have pivotted |
| you | have pivotted |
| they | have pivotted |
Past
| I | pivotted |
| you | pivotted |
| he;she;it | pivotted |
| we | pivotted |
| you | pivotted |
| they | pivotted |
Pluperfect
| I | had pivotted |
| you | had pivotted |
| he;she;it | had pivotted |
| we | had pivotted |
| you | had pivotted |
| they | had pivotted |
Future
| I | will pivot |
| you | will pivot |
| he;she;it | will pivot |
| we | will pivot |
| you | will pivot |
| they | will pivot |
Future Perfect
| I | will have pivotted |
| you | will have pivotted |
| he;she;it | will have pivotted |
| we | will have pivotted |
| you | will have pivotted |
| they | will have pivotted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | pivot |
| you | pivot |
| he;she;it | pivot |
| we | pivot |
| you | pivot |
| they | pivot |
Perfect
| I | have pivotted |
| you | have pivotted |
| he;she;it | have pivotted |
| we | have pivotted |
| you | have pivotted |
| they | have pivotted |
Imperfect
| I | pivotted |
| you | pivotted |
| he;she;it | pivotted |
| we | pivotted |
| you | pivotted |
| they | pivotted |
Pluperfect
| I | had pivotted |
| you | had pivotted |
| he;she;it | had pivotted |
| we | had pivotted |
| you | had pivotted |
| they | had pivotted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would pivot |
| you | would pivot |
| he;she;it | would pivot |
| we | would pivot |
| you | would pivot |
| they | would pivot |
Perfect
| I | would have pivotted |
| you | would have pivotted |
| he;she;it | would have pivotted |
| we | would have pivotted |
| you | would have pivotted |
| they | would have pivotted |
Imperative
| you | pivot |
| we | Let's pivot |
| you | pivot |
Verbs conjugated like 'pivot'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'pivot'
pilot,
civet,
phot,
pipet,
piroot,
pit,
piton,
plot,
poot,
pot,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English pevet, *pivot, from Old French pivot (“hinge pin, pivot”) (12th c.), possibly from Latin pūgiō.
Sample Sentences
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Mr. Shah’s new business has signed up 25 New York City hotels and raised $1.5 million from angel investors and $3 million from a seed round. Yet three months into his new project, he has had to pivot again, realizing that his best customers are large businesses, not individuals. [2017 December 6, Caitlin Kelly, “For Entrepreneurs, a Tough Moment: The Pivot”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2022:]
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“Entrepreneurs usually have some inkling about a problem they can solve,” he said. “But typically they’re not exactly right. So if you survive long enough, you pivot and pivot and pivot and find what sticks.” [2020 January 10, Paul Sullivan, “The Secret of Their Success: It’s Not About the Money”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 06 Jan 2021:]
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It was a fairly common strategy for startups in our space, but we were pivoting so frequently that it didn't quite work for us—if Nick found someone on Monday, by Friday we'd usually pivoted away from that sector so that it made no longer sense, and the advisor share paperwork we'd asked the lawyers to draw up would be left unfiled. [2020, Wendy Liu, Abolish Silicon Valley:]