headquarter

verb

head·​quar·​ter ˈhed-ˌkwȯ(r)-tər 

-ˌkȯr-, 

(ˈ)hed-ˈkwȯ(r), 

-ˈkȯr-

headquartered; headquartering; headquarters

transitive verb

: to place in headquarters

… separated the players from their wives, headquartering them in a separate hotel …

—Jeff Duncan

intransitive verb

: to make one's headquarters

decided to headquarter in Seattle

Examples of headquarter in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Fox News Digital reached out to The Meat Institute, headquartered in Virginia, and The American Association of Meat Processors, based in Pennsylvania, for comment. — Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026

Although now headquartered in Chicago, Ulbrich (from Germany) says that London is the leading global location for business, whatever New York might say. — Kamal Ahmed, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026

MacroCycle was founded by Stwart Peña Feliz and Jan-Georg Rosenboom in 2023 out of MIT and is currently headquartered in Cambridge, Mass. — Cleo Levin, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2026

Griffin also contributed $125 million to the University of Chicago in 2017 when Citadel was still headquartered in the Windy City. — Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1838, in the meaning defined at transitive sense

Rhymes for headquarter

• colporteur
• exporter
• importer
• reporter
• supporter
• transporter
• mortar
• quarter
• shorter
• sorter