hub-and-spoke
adjective
: being or relating to a system of routing air traffic in which a major airport serves as a central point for coordinating flights to and from other airports
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The hub-and-spoke model This is the sweet spot for the traveler who wants to see as much as possible but can’t commit to the team-following hustle.
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Meredith Heil Bock, AFAR Media, 25 Sep. 2025
The park’s hub-and-spoke design has been copied by parks around the world, but the caliber of Disneyland’s craftsmanship wasn’t easily imitated.
—Eve Chen, USA Today, 18 July 2025
In many ways, the sprawling facility is the center of a wider hub-and-spoke system of ports for China-Latin America trade – similar to the system that major airlines use for organizing their principal flight routes, says the Army War College’s Dr. Ellis.
—Whitney Eulich, Christian Science Monitor, 30 May 2025
The hub-and-spoke model is notable for its ability to foster collaboration and to align vision and strategy.
—Erin Tavgac, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
That hub-and-spoke design, though, made botnets relatively easy for law enforcement or security researchers to dismantle.
—Garrett M. Graff, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2017
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Meredith Heil Bock, AFAR Media, 25 Sep. 2025
The park’s hub-and-spoke design has been copied by parks around the world, but the caliber of Disneyland’s craftsmanship wasn’t easily imitated.
—Eve Chen, USA Today, 18 July 2025
In many ways, the sprawling facility is the center of a wider hub-and-spoke system of ports for China-Latin America trade – similar to the system that major airlines use for organizing their principal flight routes, says the Army War College’s Dr. Ellis.
—Whitney Eulich, Christian Science Monitor, 30 May 2025
The hub-and-spoke model is notable for its ability to foster collaboration and to align vision and strategy.
—Erin Tavgac, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
That hub-and-spoke design, though, made botnets relatively easy for law enforcement or security researchers to dismantle.
—Garrett M. Graff, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2017
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