Meanings
- not comparablecomputingBeing 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
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna system of air transportation in which local airports offer air transportation to a central airport where long-distance flights are available
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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hub-and-spoke. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hub-and-spoke
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