Headquarters
noun
The main office or center of control in an organization.
Google's headquarters is in Mountain View, California.
Often appears as...
- company headquarters
- military headquarters
noun
The place from which military operations are controlled.
The General returned to his headquarters to plan his next move.
Often appears as...
- military headquarters
- army headquarters
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Technical
noun
The main office or center of control in an organization.
Google's headquarters is in Mountain View, California.
Often appears as...
- company headquarters
- military headquarters
noun
The place from which military operations are controlled.
The General returned to his headquarters to plan his next move.
Often appears as...
- military headquarters
- army headquarters
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Corporate Presence
Refers to the most important location for a business, where key decisions are made.
The tech startup moved its headquarters to Silicon Valley to be closer to investors.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Physical
While typically a building, 'headquarters' can also refer to a legal or virtual focal point.
Despite having offices worldwide, the company's virtual headquarters is where global strategies are formed.
Pro Tip 3/3Symbol of Power
Often implies a place with the greatest influence within an organization.
Aspiring employees dream of reaching the headquarters, as promotion to this office is highly prestigious.
Pro Tip 1/3Corporate Presence
Refers to the most important location for a business, where key decisions are made.
The tech startup moved its headquarters to Silicon Valley to be closer to investors.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Physical
While typically a building, 'headquarters' can also refer to a legal or virtual focal point.
Despite having offices worldwide, the company's virtual headquarters is where global strategies are formed.
Pro Tip 3/3Symbol of Power
Often implies a place with the greatest influence within an organization.
Aspiring employees dream of reaching the headquarters, as promotion to this office is highly prestigious.
Pro Tip 1/3Corporate Presence
Refers to the most important location for a business, where key decisions are made.
The tech startup moved its headquarters to Silicon Valley to be closer to investors.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Physical
While typically a building, 'headquarters' can also refer to a legal or virtual focal point.
Despite having offices worldwide, the company's virtual headquarters is where global strategies are formed.
Pro Tip 3/3Symbol of Power
Often implies a place with the greatest influence within an organization.
Aspiring employees dream of reaching the headquarters, as promotion to this office is highly prestigious.
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Sebastian Junger: Why...
They fought. The worked. They slept in the same clothes. They never took them off, and at the end of the month, they went back down to the company headquarters, and by then, their clothes were unwearable. They burned them and got a new set. There was no Internet. There was no phone. There was no communication with the outside world up there.
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Ricardo Semler: Radical...
why do we want to know what time you came to work, what time you left, etc.? Can't we exchange this for a contract for buying something from you, some kind of work? Why are we building these headquarters? Is it not an ego issue that we want to look solid and big and important?
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Michael Nichols:...
heroes they risk their life every day the bull elephants that live in zakhmi they knew where to stay they stayed at Park headquarters while this is going on but as I was going along I had still never seen an elephant you know except that we're afraid everybody said you
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Stefan Sagmeister: The...
and they wanted to protect the artwork. And they swept it all up and put it into custody at police headquarters. I think you see, you see them sweeping. You see them sweeping right here. That's the police, getting rid of it all. So after eight hours
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The mind behind Linux PIPE...
It's kind of amazing. You must have some amazing software headquarters driving all this. That's what I thought -- and I was shocked when I saw a picture of it. I mean, this is -- this is the Linux world headquarters.
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WorldSpace: The world’s...
government headquarters not not for any nefarious reason but no one still has a way of taking this information and spreading the ideas that these information caddy there so these are some of the ways by which
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Can you solve the...
As your country's top spy, you must infiltrate the headquarters of the evil syndicate, find the secret control panel, and deactivate their death ray. But all you have to go on is the following information
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Baby Squirrels Nesting PIPE...
now that they're pregnant with the next generation of recruits the females thoughts turned to building a solid predator resistance headquarters where they can raise them
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Why I love a country...
who cherish the ideals of our system and actively engage in the process of making our democracy work. And he took me to a campaign headquarters —
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Mary Roach: 10 things...
She said that the last time she had done it was on the Disneyland tram. The headquarters for orgasm, along the spinal nerve,
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Sebastian Junger: Why...
They fought. The worked. They slept in the same clothes. They never took them off, and at the end of the month, they went back down to the company headquarters, and by then, their clothes were unwearable. They burned them and got a new set. There was no Internet. There was no phone. There was no communication with the outside world up there.
Video examples
Ricardo Semler: Radical...
why do we want to know what time you came to work, what time you left, etc.? Can't we exchange this for a contract for buying something from you, some kind of work? Why are we building these headquarters? Is it not an ego issue that we want to look solid and big and important?
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Michael Nichols:...
heroes they risk their life every day the bull elephants that live in zakhmi they knew where to stay they stayed at Park headquarters while this is going on but as I was going along I had still never seen an elephant you know except that we're afraid everybody said you
Video examples
Stefan Sagmeister: The...
and they wanted to protect the artwork. And they swept it all up and put it into custody at police headquarters. I think you see, you see them sweeping. You see them sweeping right here. That's the police, getting rid of it all. So after eight hours
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The mind behind Linux PIPE...
It's kind of amazing. You must have some amazing software headquarters driving all this. That's what I thought -- and I was shocked when I saw a picture of it. I mean, this is -- this is the Linux world headquarters.
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WorldSpace: The world’s...
government headquarters not not for any nefarious reason but no one still has a way of taking this information and spreading the ideas that these information caddy there so these are some of the ways by which
Video examples
Can you solve the...
As your country's top spy, you must infiltrate the headquarters of the evil syndicate, find the secret control panel, and deactivate their death ray. But all you have to go on is the following information
Video examples
Baby Squirrels Nesting PIPE...
now that they're pregnant with the next generation of recruits the females thoughts turned to building a solid predator resistance headquarters where they can raise them
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Why I love a country...
who cherish the ideals of our system and actively engage in the process of making our democracy work. And he took me to a campaign headquarters —
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Mary Roach: 10 things...
She said that the last time she had done it was on the Disneyland tram. The headquarters for orgasm, along the spinal nerve,
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Alan Mulally
American Businessman
I can remember the first time I tried to drive into the garage of the world headquarters of Ford in a Camry. It was almost like they wouldn't let me in. They said, 'Why do you want to do that?' I said, 'Because we are going to make the best cars in the world, and we need to know everything about the competitor's car.
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Steve Easterbrook
British Businessman
Moving our headquarters to Chicago is another significant step in our journey to build a better McDonald's. This world-class environment will continue to drive business momentum by getting us even closer to customers, encouraging innovation and ensuring great talent is excited about where they work.
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Fred DeLuca
American Businessman
When you're invested in your own business, you're going to run it better. When people are financially responsible for whether their store succeeds, they're going to have that kind of entrepreneurial spirit that's harder to get if headquarters is running things.
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Alan Dershowitz
American Lawyer
I generally don't select my chicken or my hamburgers based on the personal ideology of the person who is either flipping the hamburgers or making the money back at corporate headquarters. But if people want to do that, they're free to do it.
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Shehbaz Sharif
Pakistani Politician
Patient transfer service is another revolutionary step of the Punjab government, under which patients from tehsil headquarters hospitals and district headquarters hospitals are being shifted to large hospitals free of cost.
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Richard Harding Davis
American Journalist
The old sergeant from headquarters treats me like a son and takes the greatest pride in whatever I do or write. He regularly assigns me now to certain doors, and I always obey orders like the little gentleman that I am.
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James Stewart
American Actor
We had an apartment on west side of Central Park. The rent was very reasonable. We found out later that it belonged to a gangster called Legs Diamond and it was a front to his headquarters. It was fine.
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Norman Schwarzkopf
American General
The Patriot missile is a point defence missile. Point defence means that you put the missile at a location to defend a very specific target such as an airfield, a supply dump or a headquarters.
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John Cena
American Actor
The only time I ever get choked is when I'm at Make-A-Wish headquarters, because you're talking and working with people who share the same ideals.
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Jean-Pascal Tricoire
Businessman
I loved operations, and I loved operations far from the headquarters. I had no passion for corporate.
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Alan Mulally
American Businessman
I can remember the first time I tried to drive into the garage of the world headquarters of Ford in a Camry. It was almost like they wouldn't let me in. They said, 'Why do you want to do that?' I said, 'Because we are going to make the best cars in the world, and we need to know everything about the competitor's car.
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Steve Easterbrook
British Businessman
Moving our headquarters to Chicago is another significant step in our journey to build a better McDonald's. This world-class environment will continue to drive business momentum by getting us even closer to customers, encouraging innovation and ensuring great talent is excited about where they work.
Quote examples
Fred DeLuca
American Businessman
When you're invested in your own business, you're going to run it better. When people are financially responsible for whether their store succeeds, they're going to have that kind of entrepreneurial spirit that's harder to get if headquarters is running things.
Quote examples
Alan Dershowitz
American Lawyer
I generally don't select my chicken or my hamburgers based on the personal ideology of the person who is either flipping the hamburgers or making the money back at corporate headquarters. But if people want to do that, they're free to do it.
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Shehbaz Sharif
Pakistani Politician
Patient transfer service is another revolutionary step of the Punjab government, under which patients from tehsil headquarters hospitals and district headquarters hospitals are being shifted to large hospitals free of cost.
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Richard Harding Davis
American Journalist
The old sergeant from headquarters treats me like a son and takes the greatest pride in whatever I do or write. He regularly assigns me now to certain doors, and I always obey orders like the little gentleman that I am.
Quote examples
James Stewart
American Actor
We had an apartment on west side of Central Park. The rent was very reasonable. We found out later that it belonged to a gangster called Legs Diamond and it was a front to his headquarters. It was fine.
Quote examples
Norman Schwarzkopf
American General
The Patriot missile is a point defence missile. Point defence means that you put the missile at a location to defend a very specific target such as an airfield, a supply dump or a headquarters.
Quote examples
John Cena
American Actor
The only time I ever get choked is when I'm at Make-A-Wish headquarters, because you're talking and working with people who share the same ideals.
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Jean-Pascal Tricoire
Businessman
I loved operations, and I loved operations far from the headquarters. I had no passion for corporate.
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