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H.Q.

American  
Or h.q.,

abbreviation

  1. headquarters.


HQ British  

abbreviation

  1. headquarters

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Example Sentences

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The American revolutionary army attacked Princeton as it was Brit H.Q.

From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2017

The heroes of the film—again: such as they are—do their work under the bland, decolorizing fluorescents at Globe H.Q.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 16, 2015

And with H.Q., “we’re working with companies that . . . want to be the best in the world at how people feel.”

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2011

Early one morning the radiotelephone crackled in Hanoi H.Q. of General Rene Cogny, the three-star commander of French Union forces in north Viet Nam.

From Time Magazine Archive

Belgian H.Q. has probably cleared out long ago.

From Dave Dawson at Dunkirk by Bowen, Robert Sydney