subcenter
- noun
- /ˈsʌbˌsɛntər/
:
subcentro
- To enhance services, the main office opened several subcenters across the state, each catering to different local needs.
Examples
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Each PHC has five or six subcenters under it, each serving about 5,000 people.
Academic text (2007) -
Every CDB (average population 100,000) has one community health center (CHC), three or four smaller primary health centers (PHC), and 20-30 subcenters.
Academic text (2007) -
Each subcenter covers one to eight villages, depending on village size (average village population is 700 to 800).
Academic text (2007) -
Conversation is as important as the consuming of drink, and each jar acts as a subcenter around which relationships are formed, sustained, and dissolved in what is perhaps a symbolic affirmation of the system.
Academic text (1993) -
Each subcenter is staffed by a male and female health worker (HWM and HWF) with a 10th grade education.
Academic text (2007) -
North American and European cities have long histories of midtown subcenters, but the new cities of the Asian Pacific Rim now have some of the best examples of the same phenomenon.
Academic text (1998) -
The rise of the East Side proves that it is possible for very substantial subcenters to develop outside of Seattle, but that's not the reality on the ground in Everett and Tacoma today.
Blog text (19) -
The singularity of the center, like that of the top-down consensus, is decentering into multiple subcenters of culture with multidimensional relations between them instead of the more predictable one- or two-way relations between center and margins, or between consensus and difference.
Academic text (1996) -
The local government plans to establish a new subcenter to improve healthcare access for residents in rural areas.
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Each community in the region has a designated subcenter that manages its educational programs and resources.
Synonyms
A smaller part of a larger organization that works in a local area
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Etymology
Subcenter combines the prefix sub-, which means 'under' or 'below' and appears in words like subway and submarine, with center, meaning the main place. So a subcenter is a smaller or branch center that supports the main center.