WordNet
n. installation from which a military force initiates operations; "the attack wiped out our forward bases" [syn: base]
Usage examples of "base of operations".
Here, only ninety miles from Berlin, the nearest point to the German capital that could be reached by sea, British troops landed by the navy could seize and entrench a base of operations and “.
They were powerful enough to commandeer an Egyptian warship, one of the most powerful in northern Africa, but yet they couldn't hold their base of operations, a small salvage vessel.
There no harbour is open to our fleet, no district which will receive us peaceably, no city in alliance with us, no king friendly to us, no spot which we can use as a base of operations.
The base of operations consisted of a large gym, called a dojo, located on the fifth floor of a warehouse in downtown Philadelphia, about a mile from the orphanage.
Maybe these mountains could be a base of operations against the enemy.
Her father, Daurthunnicar, had been a chieftain up in Alba, his first base of operations after he'd cleared out of Nantucket.
Her father, Daurthunnicar, had been a chieftain up in Alba, his first base of operations after he’.