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swivel chair
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
swivel chair
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Behind the desk stood a sturdy swivel chair.
▪ Did they have to sit him in a swivel chair that swung sideways with every movement of his body?
▪ He sat in his swivel chair and prayed as simply as he knew how.
▪ I sat down in my swivel chair and propped my feet up, punching the replay button on the answering machine.
▪ On the other side of each desk, the applicant sits in a large, heavily padded, executive-type swivel chair.
▪ She carried the Mayor's swivel chair, put it down over City Hall, and sat in it.
▪ The plastic-covered swivel chair had been torn.
Wiktionary
swivel chair

n. A chair with a rotate seat, typically used in an office or at a computer.

WordNet
swivel chair

n. a chair that swivels on its base

Wikipedia
Swivel chair

A swivel or revolving chair is a chair with a single central leg that allows the seat to rotate 360 degrees to the left or right. The first swivel chair was invented by Thomas Jefferson, and is purported to be the chair on which he drafted the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776.

Usage examples of "swivel chair".

After a time, a thin-faced technician wearing a pale blue coverall and the insignia of the Medical Corps walked through the open portal from the corridor and took the small swivel chair behind the console.

Bill Sexton was sheriff, and I took to him right off, but I could also see that he was an office man, built for a swivel chair and a roll-top desk.

He tried to move to his swivel chair without staggering, for his legs were suddenly weak indeed.

Instead of answering, he picked her up from behind as if she weighed no more than a small child and carried her the half a dozen steps across the antique carpet to the swivel chair.

Empty desk with a phone on it, swivel chair, hat on a hook on the back of the door.

Fifty feet and one floor away, Ben Farmer got himself a mug of coffee and sat back down into his swivel chair after a quick trip to the men's room.

Inside was also as expected: a cheap desk for the plumber to do his paperwork on, a well-worn swivel chair whose stuffing was visible through the cracked vinyl on the seat, and a pegboard hung with tools, few of which could have been younger than five years, judging by the chipped paint on the forged steel.

A worn but still serviceable carpet, a couple of armchairs in the same category, one wall completely lined with bookcases, a heavy oak table with swivel chair, typewriter and piled-up papers and that was about it.

Ogle tapped the big leather swivel chair with the palm of his hand, spinning it around toward him, and fell into it.

My requirements were modest: room for my desk, swivel chair, file cabinets, and a few fake plants.