HOME BASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does home base mean? 

• HOME BASE (noun)
  The noun HOME BASE has 2 senses:

1. (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score

2. (usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise

  Familiarity information: HOME BASE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOME BASE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

home; home base; home plate; plate

Context example:

he ruled that the runner failed to touch home

Hypernyms ("home base" is a kind of...):

bag; base (a place that the runner must touch before scoring)

Domain category:

ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

central office; headquarters; home base; home office; main office

Context example:

many companies have their headquarters in New York

Hypernyms ("home base" is a kind of...):

business office; office (place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "home base"):

mukataa (an Arabic word for headquarters or administrative center)

 Context examples 

If you are single, this month I feel your very best place to meet a romantic interest would be at a resort, and it could be fairly near your home base.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The fate of the penguins is largely tied to the fate of sea ice, which the animals use as a home base for breeding, feeding and molting.

(Unless warming is slowed, emperor penguins will march toward extinction, National Science Foundation)