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hub-and-spoke

hub-and-spoke adjective: being or relating to a topology, whether for the physical distribution of goods or for telecommunications, that has a central "hub" connecting a number of outlying "spokes".

Adjective

hub-and-spoke (not comparable)

  1. Being or relating to a topology, whether for the physical distribution of goods or for telecommunications, that has a central "hub" connecting a number of outlying "spokes".
    • We had no NATO counterpart in the Pacific, only a series of "hub and spoke" bilateral alliances, so we always worked for greater South Korean–Japanese cooperation[…]2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 357

Questions about hub-and-spoke

What does hub-and-spoke mean?
Hub-and-spoke means being or relating to a topology, whether for the physical distribution of goods or for telecommunications, that has a central "hub" connecting a number of outlying "spokes".
What part of speech is hub-and-spoke?
Hub-and-spoke is an adjective.

Words near hub-and-spoke in the dictionary

  1. Hub City
  2. hub plank
  3. hub planks
  4. hub world
  5. hub worlds
  6. hub-and-spoke
  7. hub-bub
  8. hub-bubs
  9. hubae
  10. hubaes
  11. Hubal

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