H.Q.
abbreviation
headquarters.
H.Q.
American
Or
h.q.,
abbreviation
HQ
British
abbreviation
Example Sentences
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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
As he put it, an I.Q. is native and can’t be taught; so, too, is an H.Q.
From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2011
Someone with a high H.Q. is at their best when providing happiness to someone else.”
From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2011
A veteran of Narvik, Military Cross winner for Commando work in Syria, young Keyes with 30 men made his way to a wadi, near Sidi Raffa, Administrative H.Q. of Rommel's Afrika Corps.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every last one of them had thought of little else but the reason he had been summoned to H.Q. at Sydney.
From Dave Dawson on Guadalcanal by Bowen, Robert Sydney
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