headquarter

verb head·quar·ter \ ˈhed-ˌkwȯ(r)-tər , -ˌkȯr- , (ˈ)hed-ˈkwȯ(r) , -ˈkȯr- \

|Updated on: 7 Aug 2018

Definition of headquarter

headquartered; headquartering; headquarters

transitive verb

: to place in headquarters

intransitive verb

: to make one's headquarters

Recent Examples of headquarter from the Web

The Capital Gazette, Annapolis’ daily paper, is widely read in Maryland’s state capital and+ in surrounding Anne Arundel County, where it is headquartered.

— ovetta wiggins, Washington Post, "Five dead, gunman in custody after shooting at Capital Gazette building in Annapolis, police say," 28 June 2018
Now, this being Boston, our natural instinct is to wallow in our bad luck, as if the Curse of the Bambino left Fenway Park for Fort Point, where GE is headquartered.

— shirley leung, BostonGlobe.com, "Boston’s bet on GE will still pay off," 27 June 2018
These are corn tortilla chips -- topped with queso and a choice of beans, salsas and lettuce -- have been in testing since early June in Colorado, where the company has been historically headquartered.

— USA TODAY, "Chipotle tests quesadillas, avocado tostadas, nachos, frozen palomas, chocolate shakes," 22 June 2018
Fifth Third employs 18,000 people nationwide – 7,500 of them are in Cincinnati, where the company is headquartered.

— Cincinnati.com, "Layoffs coming to Fifth Third Bank," 20 June 2018
The company has about 6,700 employees on its main campus, in leased office at the former Simplot Food Group headquarters a mile north on Federal Way, and in a warehouse/office building Micron owns in Meridian.

— david staats, idahostatesman, "300 Micron engineers work in a 'trailer park.' Here's what Micron is doing about that.," 18 June 2018
The law protects the citizens of the European Union’s 28 member countries, regardless of where the data is processed or where the company collecting it is headquartered.

— emily stewart, Vox, "Notice all those privacy policy alerts and emails you’re getting? You can thank Europe for that.," 23 May 2018
In an internal email, Uber executive Eric Meyhofer wrote that Uber would be shifting its focus to Pittsburgh, where the company has been testing self-driving cars since 2016, and San Francisco, where Uber is headquartered.

— timothy b. lee, Ars Technica, "Internal Uber email announces shutdown of Arizona driverless car testing," 23 May 2018
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, Sean Hannity broadcasts live at 9 p.m. on Fox News, usually from Studio J in midtown, where the network is headquartered, but sometimes from a remote studio on Long Island, where he was raised and now lives.

— olivia nuzzi, Daily Intelligencer, "Donald Trump and Sean Hannity Like to Talk Before Bedtime," 13 May 2018

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