base of operations
noun phrase
: main offices : headquarters
The company's base of operations is (in) London.
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The mufti fled Mandatory Palestine but continued to orchestrate terrorism from his initial base of operations in Beirut.
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Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
In fact, Nixon left California and moved to the East Coast, taking a job at a white-shoe law firm and using New York City as his political base of operations.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2025
By the thirties, however, light pollution had made the center of Rome inhospitable to the observatory, and the Pope—now Pius XI—offered the use of Castel Gandolfo as a future base of operations.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
Historically, Ventura County has played a pivotal role in the evolution of labor organizing, as Cesar Chavez lived there for a time and had a strong base of operations during the rise of United Farm Workers.
—Literary Hub, 21 July 2025
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Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
In fact, Nixon left California and moved to the East Coast, taking a job at a white-shoe law firm and using New York City as his political base of operations.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2025
By the thirties, however, light pollution had made the center of Rome inhospitable to the observatory, and the Pope—now Pius XI—offered the use of Castel Gandolfo as a future base of operations.
—Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
Historically, Ventura County has played a pivotal role in the evolution of labor organizing, as Cesar Chavez lived there for a time and had a strong base of operations during the rise of United Farm Workers.
—Literary Hub, 21 July 2025
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“Base of operations.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/base%20of%20operations. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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