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Definition of Military headquarters
1. Noun. The military installation from which a commander performs the functions of command. "The general's headquarters were a couple of large tents"
Specialized synonyms: Command Post, General Headquarters, Ghq, Guardhouse
Generic synonyms: Military Installation
Language type: Plural, Plural Form
Category relationships: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Military Headquarters
Literary usage of Military headquarters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Connecticut River and the Valley of the Connecticut: Three Hundred and by Edwin Munroe Bacon (1907)
"... Philip of the Wampanoags — The frontier River Towns — Hadley the Military
Headquarters — Gathering of the Colonial forces — The "Regicide" Goffe perhaps ..."
2. Sixty Years in California: A History of Events and Life in California by William Heath Davis (1889)
"... no Adequate Relief was ever Granted—General Nathan Lyon gives a Dance and
Entertainment at military headquarters in San Diego—An Enjoyable Reunion—Fair ..."
3. Aztlan: The History, Resources, and Attractions of New Mexico by William Gillet Ritch (1885)
"Perez was by turns paraded upon a pike and kicked about in the arroyo as a foot
ball. The same spot was likewise the seat of the military headquarters of ..."
4. Policing the New World Disorder: Peace Operations and Public Security by Robert B. Oakley, Michael J. Dziedzic, Eliot M. Goldberg (1998)
"A model for a UN military headquarters also exists. Similar conditions do not
exist for the police. When an international police force is established, ..."
5. Reports of Committeesby United States Congress. Senate by United States Congress. Senate (1880)
"... about six weeks, as his military headquarters, using only one bedstead and
one mattress. Such occupation was without the consent and against the will of ..."
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