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headquarters
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, from head (adj.) + quarters . Headquarter as a verb is recorded from 1903.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The military installation from which troops are commanded and orders are issued; the military unit consisting of a commander and his support staff. 2 The center of an organization's operations or administration.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Headquarters ( HQ ) denotes the location where most, if not all, of the important functions of an organization are coordinated. In the United States , the corporate headquarters represents the entity at the center or the top of a corporation taking full ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise; "many companies have their headquarters in New York" [syn: central office , main office , home office , home base ] (usually plural) the military installation from ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES general headquarters COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE corporate ▪ In large de-centralised organizations, the marketing function may be split between sub-divisions and corporate headquarters . 14. ▪ But as sales figures ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Headquarters \Head"quar`ters\ (-kw[add]r`t[~e]rz), n. pl. [but sometimes used as a n. sing.] The quarters or place of residence of any chief officer, as the general in command of an army, or the head of a police force; the place from which orders or instructions ...
Usage examples of headquarters.
Not merely the hard work of building the colony's headquarters and family homes, of enduring the unfamiliar discomforts of a long hard cold winter, but the psychological upheavals of adjusting to something as fundamental as open sky, broad fields -- everyone had experienced some agoraphobia -- organic foods which, no sweat, had had to be killed by men who had never before ended the life of an ant.
When the focal talents of the gestalt were exchanged, not even one-half a beat of the pulse of the Aurigean Sector Headquarters was missed.
NSA headquarters, an undersea cable was laid from Vietnam to the Philippines.
Beamer was on his way to the company's headquarters in Silicon Valley.
Munford’s artillery command post at Brigade headquarters in a waterworks building near the bridge.
Despite its secondary designation Maybach II was the higher authority—the headquarters of the Supreme Commander, Hitler.
Bulganin, the distinguished-looking, goateed Supreme Headquarters Representative to the Soviet fronts.
Then he said, “Are you aware that Zossen is the headquarters of the German General Staff?
Goering had promptly called Heinrici’s headquarters in nearby Prenzlau.
However, the biggest mystery of all is why OB West, Rundstedt’s headquarters, failed to alert the whole invasion front from Holland to the Spanish border.
Then he switched with unhurried sureness to the vast globular room I identified as the Moonbase Headquarters of the Patrol.
At headquarters they were hearing nasty rumors about a new numbers racket.
I have sent a direct signal to Sector Headquarters and no doubt I shall receive orders shortly.
Therefore, since the records of both your EV and my Sector Headquarters list Ireta as unexplored, and yet Thek artifacts have unquestionably been discovered here, I will venture the perhaps bizarre opinion that there may have been a missing link in the famous Thek chain of information.
Any number of things could account for Sassiness' meeting: the arrival of the tribunal, a report from Sector Headquarters that she didn't care to broadcast, even a report from Dupaynil.