headquarters
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3.0
- noun
- /ˈhɛdˌkwɔrtərz/
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cuartel general
- The general instructed his officers to report back to headquarters after the mission.
- General headquarters
- army headquarters
- military headquarters
And I went and saw the Padre in five Airborne Brigade headquarters.
- And I went and saw the Padre in five Airborne Brigade headquarters.
- And Yemen was, at the time that I was last there, was one of the the headquarters of Al Qaeda.
- Weeks after this, Macno's staff and some Black Army commanders went to the Red Army's southern headquarters for a planning session.
- They didn't find enough magazines, they didn't find enough RPGs, as if they didn't have five weeks warning that their headquarters was about to be invaded by the IDF.
- We got transport, the fifth Special Forces group headquarters in the train and that was in two core had a beautiful beach.
Examples
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However, the Coalition's headquarters were nothing like Napoleon's, where one man's will decided all.
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We attacked a French headquarters.
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And I bet that no one in this whole headquarters even knows it happened.
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Can you see that this gets to this man at police headquarters?
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Men, I have a dispatch from headquarters, signed by General Washington himself.
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But no one wants to say anything to headquarters on Jay Street just yet.
Fiction book (1997) -
Just get the prisoner to headquarters.
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This one is our target, Sauvage's headquarters, right next to the City Hospital.
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A new military command was created in 1992, with headquarters in the northern state of Para.
Academic text (1993) -
Other officers were sent to other commands and headquarters throughout the American Expeditionary Force.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
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2.2
A place where soldiers or an organization live and work
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3.4
The main office where an organization's leaders work and give orders
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5.3
A place where a military leader directs soldiers during an operation
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4.2
A place where people plan and start activities like a military camp or company office
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3.5
A building where military leaders plan and control operations
A central military office that controls and organizes all forces during operations
The main office where military leaders organize and send orders
Compounds
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People in the military who work in the main military office to plan and manage activities
- Specialized
A central military office that controls and organizes all forces during operations
The NATO headquarters in Europe that gives military advice and leads allied forces
- Formal
The main group of leaders who make top decisions for an organization, often military
How Central
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Headquarters comes from head ('leader' or 'main') and quarters ('rooms' or 'place to stay'). It originally meant the place where the army commander and staff lived and worked, so headquarters now means the place from which military operations are led.