headquarter

verb

head·​quar·​ter ˈhed-ˌkwȯ(r)-tər How to pronounce headquarter (audio)
-ˌkȯr-,
(ˈ)hed-ˈkwȯ(r),
-ˈkȯr-
headquartered; headquartering; headquarters

intransitive verb

: to make one's headquarters

Examples of headquarter in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The business was headquartered in St. Louis until it was bought in 2017 by TD Ameritrade. Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 11 Apr. 2024 Rapidly growing its international footprint and reach, Hack The Box is headquartered in the UK, with additional offices in the US, Australia, and Greece. Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Apr. 2024 Established in 1980, Al Shola Gas is a United Arab Emirates headquartered, Engineering and Distribution company operating in the Gas sector. Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2024 ByteDance, for example, is headquartered in Beijing but registered in the Cayman Islands. Aynne Kokas, Foreign Affairs, 3 Apr. 2024 Dorna’s current owners include financial firms Bridgepoint Capital, based in the U.K., and the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) Investments, headquartered in Canada. Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Apr. 2024 Trans American, headquartered in South Plainfield, N.J., now has about 50 drivers, evenly split between staff and owner-operators, handling loads from the port of Baltimore. David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2024 In addition to paying $28.5 million, Walden, an online, for-profit university headquartered in Minneapolis, agreed to make significant programmatic changes and other disclosures to prospective students. Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024 The company, headquartered in North Dakota, is named after German immigrant Friedrich A. Scheele, who, with his wife and children, started the small hardware and general merchandise store in 1902 with a $300 down payment. Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 29 Mar. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1838, in the meaning defined at transitive sense

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The first known use of headquarter was in 1838

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“Headquarter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/headquarter. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.

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