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/rivˈɑlv ərˈaʊnd/ Listen

Revolve around

verb

Center upon. Synonyms: center, center on, concentrate on, focus on, revolve about. "Our day revolved around our work"

Move around in a circular motion. Synonyms: circle around, circle round.

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... output of the poorer countries in West Africa. Even so, Ghana remains heavily dependent on international financial and technical assistance. Gold, timber, and cocoa production are major sources of foreign exchange. The domestic economy continues to revolve around subsistence agriculture, which accounts for 36% of GDP and employs 60% of the work force, mainly small landholders. Excessively expansionary monetary and fiscal policy prior to the 2000 elections led ...

— The 2002 CIA World Factbook • US Government

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... circling years." The sun turns round upon his own axis; and the moon "changes monthly in her circled orb." The other celestial bodies all wheel their courses in circles around the common centre. The moons of Jupiter revolve around him in circles, and he carries them along with him in his periodical circuit round the sun. Saturn always moves within his rings, and thus adorned himself, walks in circles ...

— Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman • William L. Stone

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... should revolve round him for tens of hundreds of thousands of years, will he see such another incipient colonization upon any part of this attendant upon his mighty orb. What else he may see in those other planets which revolve around him we cannot tell, at least until we have tried the fifty-foot telescope which Lord Rosse is preparing ...

— The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster • Daniel Webster

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Words linked to "Revolve around" : revolve about, refer, relate, concentrate on, concern, circle, pertain, center, come to, bear on, touch on, have-to doe with, focus on, touch