HEADQUARTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does headquarter mean? 

• HEADQUARTER (verb)
  The verb HEADQUARTER has 1 sense:

1. provide with headquarters

  Familiarity information: HEADQUARTER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEADQUARTER (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they headquarter    ... he / she / it headquarters   
Past simple: headquartered   
Past participle: headquartered   
-ing form: headquartering   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provide with headquarters

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

the compnay is headquartered in New Jersey

Hypernyms (to "headquarter" is one way to...):

furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

You are going to headquarters, no doubt.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This was to be our headquarters for the time—our place of refuge against sudden danger and the guard-house for our stores.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The biggest problem facing the units affects the state of Pernambuco, more specifically the National Park of Catimbau—which has no headquarters even with the ICMBio.

(Brazilian savanna unprotected, study finds, Agência Brasil)

Dyn's corporate headquarters are in New Hampshire.

(Distributed malware attacks Dyn DNS, takes down websites in US, Wikinews)

He would make the valley and the bay his headquarters.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

This so-called Blessington is, as I expected, well known at headquarters, and so are his assailants.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At present, indeed, they were well supplied both with news and happiness by the recent arrival of a militia regiment in the neighbourhood; it was to remain the whole winter, and Meryton was the headquarters.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I will admit that your team back at headquarters will likely miss you and want your opinion or advice now and then, so keep your cell phone powered up to answer random questions from your staff or other teammates.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The group headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and has research sites at nearly 200 major medical centers, university hospitals, large oncology practice groups, and health maintenance organizations in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, and Australia.

(National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project, NCI Thesaurus)

A national clinical research group - network of 29 university medical centers, over 185 community hospitals and more than almost 3000 physicians - sponsored by the NCI, with its Central Office headquartered at the University of Chicago, and its Statistical Center located at Duke University, founded in 1955 with a goal of bringing together clinical and laboratory research.

(Cancer and Leukemia Group B, NCI Thesaurus)