hub-and-spoke
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ənˈspoʊk adjective
of or designating a system of air transportation by which local flights carry passengers to one major regional airport where they can board long-distance or other local flights for their final destinations.
Origin:
1980–85
1980–85
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| hub-and-spoke | |
| —n | |
| (modifier) Sometimes shortened to: hub denoting a method of organizing intercontinental air traffic in which one major airport is used as a feeder for local airports | |
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Hub-and-spoke
is always a great word to know.
So is gobo. Does it mean:
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
Example sentences
At next month's meeting, he will show a video and elaborate on the hub-and-spoke system.
These shared taxis form a city-wide hub-and-spoke network.
The hub-and-spoke system has made connections much easier in the vast majority of markets that cannot support nonstop service.
The tires were solid rubber, and the wheels were wooden hub-and-spoke setups not unlike what you'd find on a horse-drawn wagon.
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