headquartering

Setting up base

Headquartering is establishing or maintaining a headquarters somewhere.

A company headquartering in Delaware enjoys favorable tax laws.

The term appears most often as a present participle: The firm is headquartering its operations in Singapore.

The noun headquartering refers to the act or process of establishing such a base: The headquartering of troops near the border raised tensions.

corporate

relocation

Permanent change of residence

siteDesignated location
locationPosition in space
establishmentFounded organization or venue

placement · positioning · hub · consolidate · centralize · base · office · campus · facility · premises

administrative

management

Organizing and directing resources

coordinationOrganized cooperative movement
governanceHow authority is exercised
oversightSupervision or inadvertent omission

organization · control · operations · logistics · structure · hierarchy · bureaucracy · directorship · supervision · planning

military

command

Authoritative instruction given

baseSupporting bottom structure
garrisonStationed military force
fortDefensive military installation

installation · operations · strategic · tactical · battalion · regiment · brigade · division · corps · deployment

Opposites

centralization vs. dispersion

headquarteringdispersing

Spreading widely apart

scattering · decentralizing · distributing · spreading · fragmenting

establishing vs. dissolving operations

headquarteringdisbanding

Formally ending a group

dissolving · closing · shuttering · dismantling · decommissioning

fixedness vs. mobility

headquarteringmobilizing

Assembling for action

roaming · relocating · roving · wandering · floating

Family

head, quarter, headquarters, quartermaster, headquartered, headquarter

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