headquarters Definition
head·quarters (hed′kwôrt′ərz)
- the main office, or center of operations and control, of anyone in command, as in an army or police force
- the main office or center of control in any organization
headquarters Related Forms
head′·quar′ter transitive verb
headquarters Synonyms
headquarters
n.
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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