Definition
To play an essential role in causing the things in life to work as they should; to underlie the fulfillment of the needs of human existence.
In Context
- ""But say, Jeff, it's said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification. . . . Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!""
- "Gabriele Salvatores's "Mediterraneo" is a deliberately charming comedy whose most daring conceit is that love, in one form and another, makes the world go around."
- ""It takes all kinds of people to make this world go around. . . . We all need to work together," she said."
- "Money makes the world go around. And every year we make resolutions to save more of it, invest it more profitably and spend more wisely."
- "Waller said agriculture makes the world go around, and there would be no clothing and no food without it."