H.Q.
abbreviation
headquarters.
H.Q.
American
Or
h.q.,
abbreviation
HQ
British
abbreviation
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No. I have really, really wonderful friends and relatives who do not have a high H.Q.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2016
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
The businesses that Alshaya franchises are the exact sorts H.Q. hopes to work with.
From New York Times ● Aug. 7, 2011
At each H.Q. he stopped to rest, overheard the officers inside their dugouts discussing great battles and whose fault it was.
From Time Magazine Archive
With parting wishes for the best of luck, and "don't come back wounded," I left H.Q., and proceeded by car to the Company H.Q., where I was received with every courtesy by General ——.
From How I Filmed the War A Record of the Extraordinary Experiences of the Man Who Filmed the Great Somme Battles, etc. by Malins, Geoffrey H.
Standing in the half-finished cinder-block basement of the house that serves as the Ambulance Service’s HQ, Sadeq tipped a bowl of chopped onions into a large pot, stirring slowly as the oil sizzled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
Now they just had to get it back to Pixar HQ.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 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
Alex said Ferguson was a regular visitor to vVoosh HQ, and that Fernandez claimed to be a regular visitor to Royal Lodge, the 30-room Windsor mansion where Ferguson lived with her former husband Andrew.
From BBC ● May 20, 2026
I am fairly certain the Ormaie Gestapo HQ will be my first stop on my way to whatever prison I end up in.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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