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hub-and-spoke

hub-and-spoke

1 5.2
A transport system where local routes meet at a central place, like an airport, for long trips
  • noun
  • /hʌb ənd spoʊk/
  • Specialized
translation icon : modelo de hub-and-spoke
  • The city's public transportation operates on a hub-and-spoke model, linking various local routes to a central terminal.

Examples

  • But there are two kinds of platforms in play: hub and spoke platforms, and true network platforms.

    Blog text (20)

  • Many airlines utilize a hub-and-spoke system to connect smaller airports to major hubs.

  • U.S. drug policy currently operates as a "hub and spoke" system, with Washington dealing with each individual country separately.

    Academic text (2004)

  • That was called a hub-and-spoke configuration.

    Academic text (1999)

  • In the mid 1980s, pipeline companies began to organize their systems into a hub-and-spoke configuration.

    Academic text (1993)

  • Intuit looks like it's building a hub-and-spoke platform, where the applications are all on Intuit.

    Blog text (20)

  • Washington should, therefore, exercise leadership by promoting greater military cross-connectivity among U.S. allies and friends to augment traditional "hub and spoke" alliances.

    Blog text (20)

  • Following the hub-and-spoke model with the brand at the center of its own digital ecosystem, engaging users on Smart TVs can then lead to the brand's primary website.

    Blog text (3)

  • Our hub-and-spoke model of early-phase clinical trials allows us to quickly move drugs from the phase I program (the hub) into an organ-specific group (the spokes, such as the breast cancer or lung cancer clinical programs).

    Blog text (18)

  • A hub-and-spoke network allows passengers to travel efficiently from remote towns to main airports.

Synonyms

hub-and-spoke system
vshub-and-spoke
  • Specialized
1 5.8

A way of moving people where local flights connect at one main airport for long flights

is the shorter label for the same setup without the extra noun
hubbing
vshub-and-spoke
  • Specialized
1 7.1

Organizing routes so they go through a main hub like an airport

refers to the fixed arrangement of routes rather than the organizing action

How Centralized

hub-and-spoke
  • Specialized
1 5.2
network
647 2.9

Surface Forms

hub-and-spoke singular
hub-and-spokes plural

Morphology

hub-and-spoke = hub + spoke (transparent) = hub + and + spoke

The meaning is a direct metaphorical extension from a wheel: a central 'hub' with radiating 'spokes' (routes), so learners who know the component words can derive the sense.

Etymology

Hub-and-spoke comes from the parts of a wheel: hub means 'center' and spoke means 'a bar that goes out from the center of a wheel'. That's why a hub-and-spoke system describes routes that meet at one main place and then go out like the spokes of a wheel.