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headquarters

UK/ˌhɛdˈk(w)ɔː.təz/US/ˈhɛdˌk(w)ɔɹ.tɚz/
nounB1Very common — you will meet it every day · #1,733 of 15,258leans written

The headquarters of an organisation is the main office it is run from. Company headquarters, police headquarters, move the headquarters to Leeds.

The word looks plural and takes either a singular or a plural verb — headquarters is in Geneva and headquarters are in Geneva are both used, with the singular commoner. There is no singular form headquarter as a noun. HQ is the abbreviation and head office the British business equivalent. As a verb, be headquartered in is standard: the company is headquartered in Dublin. The military sense — a command post — is the original one.

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Definitions of headquarters

  1. 1nounheadquartersThe main office an organisation is run from.B1

    “The headquarters moved out of London in the nineties.”

    synonyms: head office, HQ

headquarters is a main office.

Also accepted in games: hq, head office

Where it comes from

From head + quarter.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Work & Careers, Business & Money

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headquarters in the wild

  • The 101st's headquarters is at Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

    101st Airborne Division

  • The term Turtle Bay is occasionally used as a metonym for the UN headquarters or United Nations as a whole.

    Headquarters of the United Nations

  • The Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) is the military headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) Allied Command Operations (ACO) that commands all NATO operations worldwide.

    Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe

  • From 1951 to 2003, SHAPE was the headquarters of Allied Command Europe (ACE).

    Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe

  • The Googleplex is the corporate headquarters complex of Google and its parent company, Alphabet Inc.

    Googleplex

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.