home base
noun
1
: the place in which someone or something lives or operates
The company's home base is in New York.
She returned to her home base after a long month of traveling.
2
baseball
: the base that a runner must touch in order to score
The runner was tagged out at home base.
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Richard Gere and wife Alejandra Gere are taking in their new home base.
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Jen Juneau, People.com, 5 Dec. 2024
Their two requirements for a new home base: somewhere with gay people and square-dancing.
—The Editors, Curbed, 2 Dec. 2024
And some startups, like fast-fashion platform Shein, have quietly established headquarters in Singapore due, at least in part, to hopes that a non Chinese home base might be more palatable to Western investors.
—Nicholas Gordon, Fortune Asia, 27 Nov. 2024
In that series of events, which was not publicly revealed until last month, a fleet of unidentified aircraft flew over Langley Air Force Base as well as over the area that includes the Navy’s SEAL Team Six home base and Naval Station Norfolk, the world’s largest naval port, over 17 days.
—Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 26 Nov. 2024
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Jen Juneau, People.com, 5 Dec. 2024
Their two requirements for a new home base: somewhere with gay people and square-dancing.
—The Editors, Curbed, 2 Dec. 2024
And some startups, like fast-fashion platform Shein, have quietly established headquarters in Singapore due, at least in part, to hopes that a non Chinese home base might be more palatable to Western investors.
—Nicholas Gordon, Fortune Asia, 27 Nov. 2024
In that series of events, which was not publicly revealed until last month, a fleet of unidentified aircraft flew over Langley Air Force Base as well as over the area that includes the Navy’s SEAL Team Six home base and Naval Station Norfolk, the world’s largest naval port, over 17 days.
—Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 26 Nov. 2024
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“Home base.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/home%20base. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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