[rə(ʊ)ˈteɪt], (Verb)

Definitions:
- move or cause to move in a circle round an axis or centre
(e.g: the wheel continued to rotate)

- pass to each member of a group in a regularly recurring order
(e.g: the job of chairing the meeting rotates)


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Origin:
late 16th century (in rotatory adjective): from Latin rotat- ‘turned in a circle’, from the verb rotare, from rota ‘wheel’