headquarter

1. The company is to relocate its headquarters in theMidlands.
   公司将把总部迁往英格兰中部。
2. She tapped out in code to headquarters.
   她给总部发出密码电报。
3. Personally, I think your counter- offer is reasonable. But I must contact my headquarter first and I'll inform you tomorrow.
   就我个人而言，我认为贵方的还盘是有道理的。但我必须与总部联系一下，明天通知您。

head.quar.ter

v.（动词）
head.quar.tered,head.quar.ter.ing,head.quar.ters 【用法疑难】
v.tr.（及物动词）
To provide with headquarters:
提供给总部：
例句：
.Despite the derivation of its name, the former Texas Oil Company is headquartered in White Plains, New York.(New Republic)
.尽管前得克萨斯石油公司得名于州名，但它的总部还是设在纽约的怀特普莱恩斯.(新共和国)

v.intr.（不及物动词）
To establish headquarters.
建立总部

The verbheadquarter occurs in both transitive and intransitive senses:
动词headquarter 可同时用作及物动词或不及物动词：
例句：
The magazine has headquartered him in a building that houses many foreign journalists.
杂志社派他去有很多外国记者的大楼。

例句：
The European correspondent will headquarter in Paris.
欧洲记者将她的总部设在巴黎。

In an earlier surveya majority of the Usage Panel found both these examples to be unacceptable in formal writing.Although ample citational evidence exists for these usages,writers who wish to avoid criticism should consider the use of alternative expressions,for example:The magazine has just assigned him to (or has stationed him in ) a building that houses many foreign journalists.
在一次较早的调查中，大部分用法专题使用小组成员认为这两个例子在正式写作中是不能被接受的。虽然在大量引文中证实存在这种用法，但为免于批评，作家应该考虑运用其它表达方法来代替，例如：杂志社派他 （或者 has stationed him in ） 去有很多外国记者的大楼。
例句：
The European correspondent will make her headquarters in Paris (or will make Paris her headquarters ).
欧洲记者将她的总部设在巴黎。（或者 will make Paris her headquarters )