home base

NOUN

home plate

Synonyms

WEAK

dish home platter the plate

Example Sentences

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You want to feel like you have a good home base, right?

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

For camps in central Maine’s Belgrade Lakes region, look to Camden or Rockport as a home base.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

In its French home base, the group is letting 200 staff go in voluntary departures from its Paris HQ.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

Davidson is understood to still have a home base in Brooklyn in the form of a brownstone rental.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026

Most rêveurs have a home base and prefer not to travel terribly far.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern