headquarters

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) The military installation from which troops are commanded and orders are issued; the military unit consisting of a commander and his support staff.
 * 2) The center of an organization's operations or administration.
 * 3) A place of concentrated activity or influence.
 * 1) A place of concentrated activity or influence.

Usage notes

 * The word is plural in construction and can take singular or plural verbs.

Related terms

 * (US) headquarter

Translations

 * Afrikaans: hoofkwartier
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: الْقِيَادَة الْعَامَّة
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque: kuartel nagusi
 * Belarusian: штаб, штаб-кватэ́ра
 * Bulgarian:, щабкварти́ра, центра́ла
 * Catalan: quarter general
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Crimean Tatar: ştab
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: hovedkvarter
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: stabejo
 * Estonian: ,
 * Finnish:, pääesikunta
 * French:
 * Galician: cuartel xeneral
 * Georgian: შტაბი, მთავარი სამმართველო, შტაბ-ბინა
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: ceanncheathrú, príomhlongfort
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: штаб, штаб-пәтер, бас кеңсе, бас штаб
 * Khmer: ទីបញ្ជាការ
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: بارەگا
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz:, штаб-квартира
 * Lao: ກອງບັນຊາການ
 * Latin: praetōrium
 * Latvian: štābs, komisariāts
 * Lithuanian: štabas
 * Macedonian: штаб, центра́ла
 * Maori: papataunga
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: hovedkvarter
 * Nynorsk: hovudkvarter
 * Pashto: قرارګاه, هېډکوارټر
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian:, قَرارْگاهِ مَرْکَزی,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: cartier general
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: заповедни́штво, заповједни́штво, шта̑б
 * Roman: zapovedništvo, ,
 * Slovak: veliteľstvo, štáb
 * Slovene: poveljstvo, štab, sedež
 * Spanish: cuartel general, cuarteles generales
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: punong himpilan, punong tanggapan
 * Tajik: қароргоҳ, ситод, штаб, қароргоҳи штаб
 * Thai: กองบัญชาการ,
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: ştab, ştab-kwartira
 * Ukrainian: штаб,
 * Urdu: ہیڈ کُوارْٹَر, مَرْکَزی دَفْتَر, صَدْر دَفْتَر, قَرار گاہ
 * Uyghur: باش شتاب
 * Uzbek:, , , shtab qarorgohi
 * Vietnamese: (總行營)


 * Afrikaans: hoofkwartier, hoofkantoor
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: egoitza, buzagitza, buruzagitza, bulego, zentrala
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:, , seu central, prefectura
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: centrála
 * Danish: hovedkvarter
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, keskustoimisto
 * French: ,
 * Galician:, sede central, xefatura
 * Georgian: შტაბი, ცენტრი, მთავარი სამმართველო, შტაბ-ბინა, სათაო ოფისი
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: מטכ'ל
 * Hindi:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: príomhoifig, ardoifig
 * Italian: sede centrale
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kapampangan: pun tanggapan
 * Kazakh: штаб, бас кеңсе
 * Khmer: ការិយាល័យ​កណ្ដាល
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: بارەگا
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Manx: ard-oik
 * Maori: papataunga
 * Navajo: atʼoh
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: hovedkvarter, hovedkontor
 * Nynorsk: hovudkvarter, hovudkontor
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: гла́вное управле́ние,, головно́й о́фис, гла́вный о́фис,
 * Spanish:, , sede central
 * Swedish: huvudkvarter,
 * Tagalog: punong himpilan, punong tanggapan
 * Vietnamese: (住所)


 * Finnish: keskuspaikka
 * Greek:
 * Vietnamese: (中心)