base of operations

1. 1.

   installation from which a military force initiates operations

   “the attack wiped out our forward bases”

   Synonymsbase

   Broadermilitary installation

   Narrowerair basearmy basefirebasenavy baserocket base

   military

Questions about base of operations

What does base of operations mean?

base of operations means "installation from which a military force initiates operations".

What is another word for base of operations?

Close synonyms include base. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is base of operations a common word?

base of operations is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.