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head·quarters (hedkwôrt′ərz)

  1. the main office, or center of operations and control, of anyone in command, as in an army or police force
  2. the main office or center of control in any organization

headquarters Related Forms

head·quar′ter transitive verb

headquarters Synonyms

headquarters

n.

main office, home office, chief office, central station, central place, distributing center, police station, office of the commanding officer, meeting place, meeting house, haunt, manager's office, quarters, base, military station, club, post, cantonment, center of operations, base of operations, H.Q.; see also office 3.

headquarters Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • corps: His first assignment was at the headquarters of the 14th corps at Innsbruck.
  • brigade: Otto Meixner was attached to the headquarters of the 22nd infantry brigade and then that of the 34th infantry division.
  • racing: Newmarket, renowned as the British Headquarters of horse racing, offers an interesting and varied range of local shops and amenities.

Converse of object

  • situate: In Main Street are situated the headquarters of the 3rd Vol.
  • locate: Other useful resources: Chrysler History Citroen Citroen is a French car maker started in 1919 by André Citroën with headquarters located in Paris.
  • occupy: In Leipzig workers occupied the youth headquarters and destroyed all the portraits except those of Karl Marx.

Adjective modifier

  • divisional: Some months afterward I received a bill for many thousands of pounds, which I hastily passed on to divisional headquarters.
  • administrative: Known as the Town of Fire and Iron, Atbara serves as the main workshop base and administrative headquarters for Sudan's Railways Corporation.
  • corporate: Go to the corporate headquarters, where the hiring occurs, not to a branch office.
  • Unitarian: Taken from a pamphlet circulated from Unitarian Headquarters, Essex Hall, 1-6 Essex Street, LONDON.
  • purpose-built: It is two years since Pall-Ex moved into Leicestershire, building a £ 12m purpose-built headquarters for its round-the-clock pallet freight business.
  • un: In my case both exams were at UN headquarters in New York.

Modifies a noun

  • building: At the center of the fort is the headquarters building.
  • troop: The headquarters and headquarters troop has a supply section and automotive maintenance section.

Noun used with modifier

  • brigade: The brigade headquarters can control up to six battalions of field artillery.
  • battalion: Examples of these tenants are the brigade rear CP and the support battalion company headquarters.
  • squadron: The headquarters troop provides the internal administrative, disciplinary, training, and security support functions for the squadron headquarters.
  • platoon: The treatment platoon is composed of a platoon headquarters, two forward supporting treatment squads, and an area support section.
  • wartime: Other Imperial War Museum branches are the Cabinet War Rooms ( Churchill's wartime government headquarters in Whitehall ), and Imperial War Museum North.
  • police: MULDER: The bank is adjacent to the police headquarters where the detective was killed.

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