hot button

hot buttonnoun

• 1

  A central issue, concern or characteristic, especially one that motivates people to make a choice; sometimes also one that people seek to delay taking sides on.

  • That issue was mostly solved in the modern forces, but it was still a hot button for every student of modern military history.
• 2

  businessmarketingThe principal desire that a salesman needs to "hit" in order to make a sale.

  • Jack Lacey^([sic]), a top rating salesman, says that sales are made by touching off a “hot button” within the prospect’s mind.’
  • So one way of producing conviction is to “find the hot button”— something the other person is currently interested in—and show him how your idea can help him get that.
• 3

  An emotional trigger; something that arouses strong emotion or opinions.

  • Because when you recognize your main hot button, you can take the necessary steps to diffuse anger and reestablish connectedness in a healthy relationship.
  • “The sooner he gets rid of those children, the better it will be. He is too busy to be encumbered with orphans,” Delleah said. That struck Melissa's hot button. “

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• hot-button