4.20.2010

HEADQUARTER = STATION = ASSIGN (em alguns casos - v. abaixo)

v.tr.: To provide with headquarters: "Despite the derivation of its name, the former Texas Oil Company is headquartered in White Plains, New York" (New Republic).
v.intr.: To establish headquarters.

Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, the company has an innovative business model, based on the concept of total service.
The company is headquartered at its warehouse facility on the edge of Dublin...

USAGE NOTE The verb headquarter occurs in both transitive and intransitive senses: The magazine has headquartered the reporter in a building that houses many foreign journalists. The European correspondent will headquarter in Paris. In an earlier survey a 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 the reporter to (or has stationed the reporter in) a building that houses many foreign journalists. The European correspondent will make her headquarters in Paris (or will make Paris her headquarters).

noun: Where is the headquarters of WHO (OMS)? Answer: Geneva ( Switzerland).