revolve around

verb — 2 senses

revolve around

verb
1

Literally To rotate about (an axis); to orbit.

  • The Earth revolves around the Sun.
2

Idiomatic To be essentially connected with; to concern.

  • His life revolves around beer and bad jokes.
  • In Chapter 1 we learned the fundamental security concepts revolving around the DMZ, what the DMZ is, and how to design a basic DMZ with traffic flows.2003, Robert J. Shimonski et al., Building DMZs For Enterprise Networks, Syngress, page 50:
1 more example
  • However, at that time I was already into the mode and interest of another important topic of international law revolving around the principle of sovereignty and territorial integrity and self-determination related mainly to secessionist movements.2014, Besfort T. Rrecaj, The Politics of Legal Regimes of Nuclear Energy in the Aspect of International Security, page 11:

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