hubnoun [ C ]
uk/hʌb/us/hʌb/hub noun [ C ] (CENTRAL PART)
the central or main part of something where there is most activity:
The City of London is the hub of the UK's financial world.
The computer department is at the hub of the company's operations.
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Places and locations
- a place for everything and everything in its place idiom
- action
- core
- direction
- ground zero
- heartland
- location
- oxygen bar
- place
- point
- post
- scene
- set
- setting
- situation
- spot
- station
- stronghold
- the holy of holies
- venue
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Centres of objects
hub noun [ C ] (WHEEL)
the central part of a wheel into which the spokes (= bars connecting the central part to the outer edge of the wheel) are fixed
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The exterior of vehicles
- brake light
- bull bar
- bumper sticker
- hood
- Klaxon
- licence plate
- license plate number
- offside
- petrol cap
- radial
- retread
- roof
- roof rack
- side mirror
- splash guard
- stepney
- tyre
- vanity plates
- wing
- wing mirror
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Machines - parts