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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Dallas-Fort Worth was built up as a drone delivery home base of sorts for Walmart to kick off 2024.
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Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 7 Jan. 2025
The cosmopolitan Dawson often traveled around Africa to work on cases, but where is his home base?
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From 2007 to 2016, Tana French wrote six police-procedural novels narrated by different detectives working in a European city.
—J. D. Biersdorfer, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
New Orleans Saints: Malaki Starks, S, Georgia Finding a spot for a player like Starks, who makes his home base at safety, can be tough.
—Nick Baumgardner, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
Tour the Johnson Space Center For some out-of-this-world inspiration, explore Mission Control in Houston at the Johnson Space Center, the awe-inspiring home base for America's first mission to the moon and many other space journeys since 1961.
—Cynthia J Drake, Southern Living, 31 Dec. 2024
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Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 7 Jan. 2025
The cosmopolitan Dawson often traveled around Africa to work on cases, but where is his home base?
4 of 5
From 2007 to 2016, Tana French wrote six police-procedural novels narrated by different detectives working in a European city.
—J. D. Biersdorfer, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
New Orleans Saints: Malaki Starks, S, Georgia Finding a spot for a player like Starks, who makes his home base at safety, can be tough.
—Nick Baumgardner, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
Tour the Johnson Space Center For some out-of-this-world inspiration, explore Mission Control in Houston at the Johnson Space Center, the awe-inspiring home base for America's first mission to the moon and many other space journeys since 1961.
—Cynthia J Drake, Southern Living, 31 Dec. 2024
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“Home base.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/home%20base. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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