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HEADQUARTER
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they headquarter ... he / she / it headquarters
Past simple: headquartered
Past participle: headquartered
-ing form: headquartering
Sense 1
Meaning:
Provide with headquarters
Example:
the compnay is headquartered in New Jersey
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "headquarter" is one way to...):
furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Context examples:
He would take so valuable a prize to headquarters with his own hands.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was no very unusual thing for Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, to look in upon us of an evening, and his visits were welcome to Sherlock Holmes, for they enabled him to keep in touch with all that was going on at the police headquarters.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The household at the Abbey Grange were much surprised at our return, but Sherlock Holmes, finding that Stanley Hopkins had gone off to report to headquarters, took possession of the dining-room, locked the door upon the inside, and devoted himself for two hours to one of those minute and laborious investigations which form the solid basis on which his brilliant edifices of deduction were reared.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
