base of operations

noun phrase

: main offices : headquarters
The company's base of operations is (in) London.

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Meanwhile, the Lioness team is escorted through the trees to a bunker-base of operations as drones whiz across the sky like a plague of locusts and the ground around them erupts with mortars. Andy Andersen, Vulture, 2 Aug. 2026 Sultanov, a dual UK and Azerbaijan citizen, allegedly operated at the the RAF Akrotiri base, which is used as a base of operations in the Middle East. Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 31 July 2026 One of those accounts was used as a relay point—letting the agent route outside traffic through it and use it as a temporary base of operations—and another was used to store data, the company said. Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 29 July 2026 The royals use the Palace of the Holyroodhouse, the monarchy's official residence in Edinburgh, as their base of operations during this time, and the celebrations always start with the monarch symbolically receiving the keys to the city. Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 27 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for base of operations

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“Base of operations.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/base%20of%20operations. Accessed 9 Aug. 2026.

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