home base
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3.4
- noun
- /hoʊm beɪs/
- That was a choice we made to, to remain in New Hampshire as the home base for the family.
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- And the United States is still basically home base for TCPIP.
- Now, Google is still the absolute home base for all things local discovery.
- We want like a home base, essentially, but my kids.
Examples
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His home base is a town called Charleville, which is about four hundred miles from here.
Fiction book (1991) -
I like to think of an author's website as the home base of their online efforts.
Blog text (7) -
Then I would like to take that tape back with me to home base for analysis.
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On our recent trip to America, this was home base for the trip.
Blog text (23) -
Now, Google is still the absolute home base for all things local discovery.
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We resumed normal operations at our home base this week, providing passengers with beautiful views of South Florida's beaches.
Blog text (13) -
The Huggins, like many full-timers, chose South Dakota as their home base because of the tax benefits.
Blog text (3) -
Vale also founded a science education website called iBioSeminars.org, which has its home base at UCSF.
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The home base of the IAU is the permanent Secretariat at the Institut d'Astrophysique in Paris, France.
Academic text (2000) -
The office in downtown serves as the main home base for our company's operations.
Synonyms
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2.2
A place where soldiers or an organization live and work
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3.0
The main office where a company or group makes important decisions
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3.4
The main office where an organization's leaders work and give orders
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3.0
A main office where a company's leaders work and make decisions
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1.5
A central building where managers run an organization
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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
Main office where leaders of a company or organization work and make decisions
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1.9
A place where people do paperwork and other work for a company
How Central
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense 'main office/administrative center' is directly derivable from combining 'home' (central or primary place) with 'base' (place of operations/foundation); the compound simply denotes the base that serves as 'home' for an organization. This compositional interpretation follows regular noun–noun compounding patterns and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would likely infer the meaning.
Etymology
Home base may come from baseball or from the army, where a 'base' is a safe place you return to. Picture a team leaving to work and then coming back to the same place, and you can see why it now means a company's 'main office' or 'center' of activity.