1 ~ (about / around sth) to move or turn around a central fixed point; to make sth do this:
[V] Stay well away from the helicopter when its blades start to rotate. * winds rotating around the eye of a hurricane * [VN] Rotate the wheel through 180 degrees.
2 if a job rotates, or if people rotate a job, they regularly change the job or regularly change who does the job:
[V] The EU presidency rotates among the members. * When I joined the company, I rotated around the different sections. * [VN] We rotate the night shift so no one has to do it all the time.
rotating adjective [onlybeforenoun]:
rotating parts * a rotating presidency
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