swivel-chair

A form of swivel chair — A chair with a rotating seat, typically used in an office or at a computer.

Meanings

nounswivel-chair (plural swivel-chairs)

plural swivel-chairs

  1. alternativeAlternative form of swivel chair.

    A flat topped desk stood by the window; there was a swivel-chair upholstered in worn, black leather.

    2010, W.J. Burley, Wycliffe and the Scapegoat
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    Up in the city, I tried for a while to list the quotations on an interminable amount of stock , then I fell asleep in my swivel-chair.

    1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

    The gentleman he was facing, and whose name he did not know, swung his swivel-chair to the left so that he, too, could look down over the park.

    2012, Margaret Pemberton, Zadruga
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