general headquarters
Americannoun
plural
general headquartersEtymology
Origin of general headquarters
First recorded in 1855–60
Example Sentences
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Top generals lunched together in the mess, and around general headquarters it was like an old home week at the war college.
From Time Magazine Archive
But, from general headquarters right down through the 70-odd plants scattered the length & breadth of the land, the whole Allied personnel had one thing in common: Fear.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is an air of melancholy these days about the American Atheists general headquarters on a stretch of Cameron Road.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Can nobody," asked the Daily Mirror, "dampen the airy-fairy optimism of the military spokesman at general headquarters in Cairo?"
From Time Magazine Archive
Between the general headquarters and the headquarters of army corps officers constantly travel to and fro in motor cars.
From The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 1 (of 10) From the Beginning of the War to the Landing of the British Army in France by Parrott, James Edward
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