HEADQUARTERS


Meaning of HEADQUARTERS in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

general headquarters

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

corporate

In large de-centralised organizations, the marketing function may be split between sub-divisions and corporate headquarters . 14.

But as sales figures at the branch continued to improve, the thinking at corporate headquarters gradually started to come around.

The company as a whole employs 3,800 people, but only 22 of them are at corporate headquarters in Boston.

Havana has shifted its corporate headquarters .

Time and again we have seen large country houses taken over for institutional use, whether as corporate headquarters or hospitals.

Louis, the corporate headquarters , is the only city named.

Most corporate headquarters and bank branches in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh were open Tuesday after partial closures yesterday.

At Starbucks' corporate headquarters , the signature mermaid placard toppled into the parking lot below.

democratic

Perhaps the First Boomer could also use a map to Democratic Party headquarters .

When the polls closed on election night, Democratic headquarters had an uncharacteristic tension.

By nine he was stony-faced and Democratic headquarters was relaxing.

local

In December they picketed the Guildhall and the local Unionist Party headquarters , and called on the unemployed to become more militant.

Composition class was local headquarters of irony; we supplied the five-county area.

military

The two leaders went to military headquarters for confirmation and were told that the staff were otherwise engaged.

The first tussles of the 1848 revolution took place here when it was the military headquarters .

So were all the major South Viet-namese government and military headquarters .

Demir was able to call a lawyer, arrange for him to visit the main military headquarters and see the campaigner.

national

Its national headquarters are in Florida.

The strategy its national headquarters has crafted for achieving that vision includes, among other planks, two important parts.

The National headquarters could advise local Councils but it could not order or control them.

But people throughout national headquarters and the chapters know that their new vision will not wait for ever.

new

He built the new headquarters by the river here and everything looked rosy.

Closer to home, Rohr has junked its proposed new headquarters building in Chula Vista.

Work on a new headquarters for a government pollution control watchdog started last month.

Louise Roberts, director of Clark Center, agreed to give the company space until a new headquarters could be found.

The long-awaited opening of the new headquarters office and museum in South Kensington took place in 1935.

The slow pace of construction gave Horton a chance to linger lovingly over every feature of his new headquarters .

regional

Similar protests were held in other towns, where the party and regional authority's headquarters were besieged by angry demonstrators.

The tribunal ruled she was unfairly dismissed from her £14,000-a-year job at the union's regional headquarters in Edge Lane, Liverpool.

The building is the second regional headquarters property AT&038;.

Another 4 percent. are involved in energy and water industries, and we have a regional headquarters of the electricity board.

■ NOUN

building

About midnight four days later, the headquarters building of the Housing Executive burst into flames and was badly damaged.

The 1992 draft did not include the cost of moving the Commission from its Berlaymont headquarters building in Brussels.

Commercial Union began to cope with the temporary loss of its headquarters building by making the maximum use of available space elsewhere.

campaign

But his campaign headquarters is staffed by 20 volunteers daily, and another 20 volunteers work in phone banks each evening.

The resource disparity is evident in the campaign headquarters .

Policy said in a post-election press conference at the campaign headquarters .

Dole opened his state campaign headquarters in Glendale in the past month.

company

Are we to take it that the company headquarters , not the battalion headquarters, will be in Glasgow?

Many fans continued making a pilgrimage to Earnhardt's company headquarters in Mooresville.

Information they gathered was sent back to platoon headquarters by runner and radioed from the village to Company headquarters.

Her mortgage company has twice threatened to foreclose on her north Houston home, which serves as her company headquarters .

An emergency management team flew in from company headquarters to restore order.

party

Perhaps the First Boomer could also use a map to Democratic Party headquarters .

From Kecskemet, his path led to the party headquarters in Budapest.

The ward organizations keep what they need to function, and the rest is funneled to party headquarters .

Torgyan alerted the media to the takeover, which had involved his being physically excluded from party headquarters .

The police raided the Congress party headquarters in Bombay where salt was being made in pans on the roof.

They then used violence to force her supporters out of party headquarters .

In December they picketed the Guildhall and the local Unionist Party headquarters , and called on the unemployed to become more militant.

staff

Its headquarters staff includes six generals, headed by its controversial commander, General Maxwell Thurman.

The emerging trends for corporate headquarters staff are clear.

In this way he could form three detachments, controlled through a slightly expanded headquarters staff .

For most agencies continued cuts in headquarters staff will affect employees in the Washington area.

Between 1922 and 1927 he was on the headquarters staff of the League of Nations Union.

Finally, headquarters staff functions were streamlined by delegating some to store managers and contracting others to outside vendors.

Bringing headquarters staff together in a single location will enable those services to be delivered more efficiently and in an integrated manner.

All the 650 headquarters staff were told to report for work as normal.

■ VERB

build

He built the new headquarters by the river here and everything looked rosy.

Enormous cities were built as its headquarters .

move

Provost McDonald said last year BAe had moved the headquarters of its regional jet operation to Prestwick.

The team moved its office headquarters to the hospice's new base at Harewood House, on Harewood Hill.

Rau is pondering moving administrative and headquarters operations into the building to help fill it.

After Unita lost the vote and went back to war, it moved its headquarters to the middle of the country.

Capone moved his headquarters to Cicero, a near by suburb.

When Alfa pulled out of racing in 1929, Ferrari took over the racing division and moved his headquarters to his home town.

serve

In fact, the jails serve as headquarters and training centres for the violent crime that afflicts the streets.

Now, it looks glumly at the rather banal office block which serves as the headquarters of Montgomery Ward.

Her mortgage company has twice threatened to foreclose on her north Houston home, which serves as her company headquarters .

set

There they set up a rear headquarters and resupply dump.

Last year, the Republic of Texas set up headquarters in San Antonio and resolved to take more drastic measures.

visit

Mrs Bottomley was visiting the Stroud headquarters of the Meningitis Trust.

Demir was able to call a lawyer, arrange for him to visit the main military headquarters and see the campaigner.

Copy all your computer disks and update them whenever you visit your headquarters .

He invited the President to visit Amnesty's international headquarters in Easton Street.

He then visited the Birkenhead headquarters of Cewtec, before heading for Liverpool.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Budapest Week will move over the river to the red-light district in Budapest, where Duna's headquarters are situated.

Employees on their way into work at Hasbro headquarters Thursday morning said they opposed a merger.

He had made his headquarters in what had been the presidential suite of the Hilton hotel.

It first branched out into cosmetics and perfumes in 1990 and in 1994 moved its headquarters for those businesses to New York.

The army headquarters is on the other side of the square, in a former colonial mansion.

The London headquarters now moved to stylish new premises at 143, Charing Cross Road.

Their headquarters is rich in symbolism.

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