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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:
Possession of a long-term home base would not be allowed to limit activities.
Given that our ancestors were doing center-point foraging at that time, any food that was gathered had to be transported back to the home base.
Understandably, in a still-emergent interdisciplinary (or, more accurately co-disciplinary) field, scholarly works tend to reflect the scholar's 'home base'.
Efforts to overcome such problems by making a temporary home base at the site only create greater expense in added equipment and personnel.
Users are away from home base, friends, and family.
Home base : re-formulating the long-term and continuing care of older people.
I commend the author for reaching out to the field of organization studies from a home base in discourse studies.
All these contributors soon returned to a home base.