headquarter
verb B2- To provide (an organization) with headquarters.
- To establish headquarters.
He/she/it headquarters · Past headquartered · Past participle headquartered · -ing form headquartering
Verb forms
- Base form
- headquarter
- He/she/it
- headquarters
- Past
- headquartered
- Past participle
- headquartered
- -ing form
- headquartering
From the library
Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, to look in upon us of an evening, and his visits were welcome to Sherlock Holmes, for they enabled him to keep in touch with all that was going on at the police headquarters.
At three in the morning the chief Sussex detective, obeying the urgent call from Sergeant Wilson of Birlstone, arrived from headquarters in a light dog-cart behind a breathless trotter.
Mortimer has his headquarters.
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