Hub-and-spoke

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Noun
  1. 1
    a system of air transportation in which local airports offer air transportation to a central airport where long-distance flights are available wordnet
Adjective
  1. 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". not-comparable

    "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[…]"

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hub-and-spoke system

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"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[…]"

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