hub for
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4.1
- noun
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- Silicon Valley has become a major hub for technology and innovation.
- become a hub for
- hub for trade
And to me, those two are like kind of a media hub for the West Coast.
- And to me, those two are like kind of a media hub for the West Coast.
- So Apple wants Apple TV, the app to be your kind of hub for all your entertainment.
- The first that comes to mind is Behance and that is pretty much the hub for all types of creativity.
- Could India become a source or a global hub of innovation just like it's become a global hub for back office services and software development?
- It aims to be a global hub for dialogues, allowing every discipline to bear on the challenges of AI.
- We could have been the Golden Isles, we could have been in the investment hub for Europe and we had the power to do it.
- And this app will literally be a hub for all things LTTA.
- Our shop was just a hub for that in terms of our business.
- So now this is going to be a great hub for Chris and I to be able to work out of Chris, what's up?
Examples
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In particular, the city is known as a hub for immigrant populations.
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Today, it has a more cultured air as a major hub for the arts.
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And to me, those two are like kind of a media hub for the West Coast.
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So Apple wants Apple TV, the app to be your kind of hub for all your entertainment.
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Now Bristol was a manufacturing town and it was an important hub for the British.
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The center serves as a hub for our students, faculty, and staff as well.
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While in Oklahoma, he will visit the Cushing area, a major hub for the oil industry.
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The learning commons has become a hub for community events, such as monthly PTA meetings and guest speakers.
Academic text (2013) -
Since the late 1980s, Toronto has become a major hub for Ghanaians who left Ghana to escape economic and social crisis.
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The Social Psychology Network (SPN) is a popular resource hub for health psychology information.
Academic text (2012)
Synonyms
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1.0
A place where people go for a service or activity
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3.7
A busy central place where people or services come together
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4.2
A city that is the main place for an activity
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2.5
A place where people meet regularly to talk and spend time together
How Central
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a central place where an activity is focused' is directly derivable from combining 'hub' (focal point) with the preposition 'for' (indicating purpose/target); together they transparently signal a central place for X. This noun + preposition composition is common cross-linguistically and follows a straightforward English pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will typically understand the expression.
Etymology
Hub for comes from the image of a wheel's center: the hub is the round part where the spokes meet and everything turns around. That's why calling a city a hub for fashion means it is a 'central place' where that activity comes together.