home
- noun
- /hoʊm/
- Jargon
- If you can find Ahmed and his family, call us with the location, we'll come in, airlift you out, get you back to base, put you on the next transport home.
- home base
- home port
- home-basing
What I really love that Max said though, was he talked about home base also being being accountable.
- What I really love that Max said though, was he talked about home base also being being accountable.
- She's a, a research scientist for the government and her home bases, Wake Forest University.
- OK, this one is five stars titled #maga, our new home Base.
Examples
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Headed for the home base
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The general reported that all personnel were back home at the military headquarters, ready for the next assignment.
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Then, we'll send video back here to home base.
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Then I would like to take that tape back with me to home base for analysis.
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Any serious problem, the ship autopilots back to home base.
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Sanchez hasn't been out of his home base for years.
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Fort Meade is the home of the U.S.'s cyber operations and intelligence gathering.
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After finishing their mission abroad, the soldiers were relieved to finally return home to their base.
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The captain announced that the battalion would soon be heading home after a successful deployment.
Synonyms
A place where soldiers or an organization live and work
A base or group of buildings where soldiers live and work
The main office where a company or group does its work
Idioms
- Informal
Leave a game or group angrily because you did not get your way
- Informal
To leave a group or activity because you do not get your way
- Informal
To eat so much at someone's home that they have almost no food left
- Offensive
Looking awake but not paying attention or thinking clearly
Compounds
A place where older people live and receive help with daily tasks and medical care
A place where people prepare a dead body for burial or cremation and say goodbye
- Texting
The main page of a website that appears when you open the site or your browser
- Jargon
A flat rubber base with five sides that a batter stands over and runners touch to score
- Specialized
Care and help with medical and personal needs in a person's home for elderly or disabled people
- Offensive
A person who has a romantic relationship with someone married or in a relationship, causing it to end
- US
A set of speakers and a big screen at home for watching movies like in a cinema
- Specialized
A loan that uses the value of your house to get money for big expenses
- Literature
A senior government minister who leads the Home Office and handles security, law and immigration
- UK
A UK government department that handles immigration, security and police matters
- Formal
The right of a city or county to run its own local matters without central government control
- Formal
An official order telling people to remain at home to slow the spread of a disease
A school subject about running a home, like cooking, sewing, and managing money
A place where a person, group, or animal feels most comfortable, often a team's regular field
A place where young people who have broken the law stay temporarily under court supervision
- Specialized
A regional bank that lends short-term money to local savings banks to support home loans
- Archaic
A hospital for people who cannot look after themselves because of mental illness
A US company backed by the government that buys home loans to help banks lend more
- Archaic
A festival at the end of the farming year when people gather to celebrate crops
How Central
Surface Forms
Etymology
Home The military use of 'home' for a base comes from heim as a safe place to return, so a 'home' base is where missions start and where people come back. This shows why 'home' can mean the main station for soldiers and planes.