HQs
Sayaych-KYOOZUS/ˌeɪt͡ʃ ˈkjuz/UK/ˌeɪt͡ʃ ˈkjuːz/
- 1Plural of HQ.
The two firms relocated their HQs after the merger.
Several regional HQs were closed during the restructuring.
Note
A plural made by adding a lowercase -s to the initialism, with no apostrophe. The oddity is that the full word, headquarters, already ends in -s and serves as singular or plural, while the short form counts its offices one by one: two firms, two HQs. When HQ is used uncountably, as in reporting back to HQ, no plural is needed. The adjective HQ, meaning high-quality, never takes this -s.
HQs is a form of HQ
- Forms
- HQHQs plural
- Spelling
- HQ → HQs: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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