base of operations
noun phrase
: main offices : headquarters
The company's base of operations is (in) London.
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From 1986 to 2015, San Francisco served as Sega’s base of operations in the United States.
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Bailey Kanthatham, Orange County Register, 9 Oct. 2024
The main departure is that his career isn’t journalism or architecture but being the most deadly and renowned hitman in all of Europe, traveling all over the continent from his Budapest base of operations to slay criminals and other assassins with ruthless efficiency.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2024
After all, this show is about how the universe is bigger than just Arrakis, and the Bene Gesserit’s base of operations is elsewhere.
—EW.com, 23 Sep. 2024
And when the Arab Spring came and civil unrest grew in 2011 and 2012, ISIS was quick to send agents into Syria to establish a new base of operations.
—Benjamin Bahney, Foreign Affairs, 15 Dec. 2017
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Bailey Kanthatham, Orange County Register, 9 Oct. 2024
The main departure is that his career isn’t journalism or architecture but being the most deadly and renowned hitman in all of Europe, traveling all over the continent from his Budapest base of operations to slay criminals and other assassins with ruthless efficiency.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2024
After all, this show is about how the universe is bigger than just Arrakis, and the Bene Gesserit’s base of operations is elsewhere.
—EW.com, 23 Sep. 2024
And when the Arab Spring came and civil unrest grew in 2011 and 2012, ISIS was quick to send agents into Syria to establish a new base of operations.
—Benjamin Bahney, Foreign Affairs, 15 Dec. 2017
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“Base of operations.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/base%20of%20operations. Accessed 4 Nov. 2024.
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