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HQ

HQ is the initialism of headquarters.

HQ is the initialism of high-quality.

HQ is the initialism of HAVE QUICK.

Meaning of headquarters

Noun

headquarters (plural headquarters)

  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.
    • As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities.2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion
  3. A place of concentrated activity or influence.
    • The head-quarters of the rebellion in the East were at a little town called Hui-lung.[1888 [1887 March 1], “The Great Mahomedan Rebellion in Yunnan”, in The China Review, volume XVI, →OCLC, page 85

Meaning of high-quality

Adjective

high-quality (comparative higher-quality, superlative highest-quality)

  1. Of very good quality; superior.
    • She always wears high-quality clothes.
    Synonyms:
    fancy, choice, dainty

Antonyms of HQ

Forms of HQ

pluralHQs
alternative formh.q.

Words formed from HQ

Questions about HQ

What is HQ the initialism of?
HQ is the initialism of headquarters.

Words near HQ in the dictionary

  1. HPTs
  2. HPU
  3. HPV
  4. HPVs
  5. HPW
  6. HQ
  7. HqBn
  8. HQC
  9. HQCs
  10. HQL
  11. HQMC

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Adapted from Wiktionary: HQ (page history and authors); headquarters (page history and authors); high-quality (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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