headquarter
Formsheadquarters, headquartering, headquartered
- 1To provide an organization with a headquarters, the central base from which it is run.
Most states headquarter their highway patrol in the capital.
Headquartering the relief team in an empty school gym let volunteers sleep steps from where they worked.
Similarbase, locate, station, house
Note
Both uses of this verb are American. In this transitive one, someone else does the placing: the organization is the object, set down in a particular city or building. Its past participle, headquartered, also works after a noun, as in a patrol headquartered in the capital. Its intransitive partner lets the organization settle itself instead.
- 2To set up one's headquarters or central base in a particular place.
Many tech firms now headquarter in cities with strong universities.
The agency headquartered in the old courthouse downtown.
Similarlocate
Note
Here the organization does the settling itself, with no object and a place phrase after the verb: the firm headquarters in Geneva. The present-tense form needs care because it is spelled exactly like the noun headquarters. A sentence like "Acme headquarters in Denver" can read as a noun phrase that is missing its verb. Like the transitive use, it is American usage.
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