# headquarter

Pronunciation: US say "HED-kwor-ter" /ˈhɛdˌkwɔɹtɚ/; UK say "hed-KWAW-tuh" /ˌhɛdˈkwɔːtə/

## Verb

1. To provide an organization with a headquarters, the central base from which it is run. *(US)*
   - Simple: To give a company or other group its main office, where its leaders work.
   - _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._
2. To set up one's headquarters or central base in a particular place. *(US)*
   - Simple: To set up a main office in a certain place.
   - _Many tech firms now headquarter in cities with strong universities._
   - _The agency headquartered in the old courthouse downtown._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/headquarter (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).