home base

noun

: 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.

baseball : the base that a runner must touch in order to score

The runner was tagged out at home base.

Examples of home base in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The vacuum has a home base all-in-one station that serves to charge the battery, offload dirt from the dustbin and clean the mop heads (with heated water and hot air drying). —

Tribune News Service, Orange County Register, 7 Sep. 2024 For delivery options, same-day delivery is only available in their home base of San Francisco, next-day delivery is available on select bouquets nationwide, and specific choice dates are available nationwide. —

Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 5 Aug. 2024 Valentine’s Day harkens to their logo (a heart) and their home base of Dallas Love Field. —

Samantha Leal, Travel + Leisure, 26 July 2024 These features—the greater meandering, the slower return to home base—are an obsession of tipping-point mathematicians. —

Sandra Upson, WIRED, 25 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for home base

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