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headquartered

headquartered is the simple past and past participle of headquarter.

Meaning of headquarter

Verb

headquarter (third-person singular simple present headquarters, present participle headquartering, simple past and past participle headquartered)

  1. (US, transitive) To provide (an organization) with headquarters.
  2. (US, intransitive) To establish headquarters.
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Adjective

headquartered (not comparable)

  1. if an organization is headquartered somewhere, it has its headquarters in that place

Questions about headquartered

What does headquartered mean?
Headquartered means if an organization is headquartered somewhere, it has its headquarters in that place.
What is headquartered the simple past and past participle of?
Headquartered is the simple past and past participle of headquarter.
What part of speech is headquartered?
Headquartered is an adjective.

Words near headquartered in the dictionary

  1. headpost
  2. headposts
  3. headprint
  4. headprints
  5. headquarter
  6. headquartered
  7. headquartering
  8. headquarters
  9. headrace
  10. headraces
  11. headrag

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Adapted from Wiktionary: headquartered (page history and authors); headquarter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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