Pivotal

Pronunciation

Full definition of pivotal

Adjective

1. Of, relating to, or being a pivot.
2. Being of crucial importance; central, key.
• 2013-06-07, Joseph Stiglitz, Globalisation is about taxes too, It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today ….