noun
- plural of lynchpin: people or things that are essential to the success or functioning of something
Usage: also spelled linchpins
Examples
- The two senior managers were the lynchpins of the entire operation.
- These policies serve as lynchpins in our economic recovery plan.
- Without these lynchpins, the whole system would collapse.
- The research team identified several lynchpins critical to the project’s success.
- She considered her top employees to be the lynchpins of her business.
- The treaty’s lynchpins include trade agreements and security provisions.