a subsidiary, or secondary, center of commercial activity
subcenter in American English
(ˈsʌbˌsentər)
noun
a secondary or subordinate center, as in the location of a business
Word origin
[1920–25; sub- + center]This word is first recorded in the period 1920–25. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Unknown Soldier, checkout, fundamentalism, montage, slalomsub- is a prefix occurring originally in loanwords from Latin (subject; subtract; subvert; subsidy). On this model, sub- is freely attached to elements of any origin and used with the meaning “under,” “below,”“beneath” (subalpine; substratum), “slightly,” “imperfectly,” “nearly” (subcolumnar; subtropical), “secondary,” “subordinate” (subcommittee; subplot)
Examples of 'subcenter' in a sentence
subcenter
Many other methods of subcenter identification have been proposed that use sophisticated econometric procedures.
Jifei Ban, Richard Arnott, Jacob L. Macdonald 2017, 'Identifying Employment Subcenters: The Method of Exponentially Declining Cutoffs',Landhttp://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/6/1/17. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)