headquarters
Definitions
General English
Accounting
- plural noun the main office, where the board of directors meets and works
Cricket
- noun Lord’s cricket ground, considered (by English people at least) as the ‘headquarters’ of the game
Citation ‘England had selected no fewer than five Middlesex players to play New Zealand at headquarters’ (Jim Laker,
WCM December 1983)
- plural noun the main administrative office of an organisation
Military
- plural noun an administrative and command centre of a tactical grouping
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