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Meanwhile, there is usually an interrelation between criteria. The Maclaurin symmetric mean (MSM) operator can capture the interrelationships among multi-input arguments. The purpose of this paper is to integrate MHFLTSs with MSM operators and to solve MCDM problems. Firstly, we develop the generalized MSM operator for MHFLTSs (MHFLGMSM), the generalized geometric MSM operator for MHFLTSs (MHFLGGMSM), the weighted generalized MSM operator for MHFLTSs (WMHFLGMSM) and the weighted generalized geometric MSM operator for MHFLTSs (WMHFLGGMSM), respectively. Then, we discuss their properties and some special cases. Further, we present a novel method to deal with MCDM problems with the MHFLTSs based on the proposed MSM operators. Finally, an illustrative example about how to select the best third-party logistics service provider is supplied to demonstrate the practicality and reliability of the proposed approaches in comparison with some existing approaches.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym10040081","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,3,26]],"date-time":"2018-03-26T12:08:25Z","timestamp":1522066105000},"page":"81","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["Multicriteria Decision Making Based on Generalized Maclaurin Symmetric Means with Multi-Hesitant Fuzzy Linguistic Information"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5048-8145","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Peide","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Management Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Finance and Economics, Jinan 250014, China"}]},{"given":"Hui","family":"Gao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Management Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Finance and Economics, Jinan 250014, China"},{"name":"School of Business, Heze University, Heze 274015, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,3,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"199","DOI":"10.1016\/0020-0255(75)90036-5","article-title":"The concept of a linguistic variable and its application to approximate reasoning","volume":"8","author":"Zadeh","year":"1975","journal-title":"Inf. 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