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1 a place where someone or something usually lives, works, or operates from --
2 the place where someone or something usually lives, works, or operates from: --
One cannot conduct an export industry without a firm home base.
They might destroy the sound home base of the company which is so important if it is to continue to export its products.
I am concerned to see that the suppliers to the railway industry have a good home base and make progress in overseas markets.
If we have a good home market and a good home base for the industry, we can build the export industry and confidence in it.
It is an economic platitude to say that an export programme, if it is to be sustained, requires a broad home base.
It follows that any policy to benefit children must comprise measures at national level to create and preserve that home base.
The real drawing production occurs at a later date and at some home base location and is usually performed by the persons who took the measurements in the field.
All these contributors soon returned to a home base.