base of operations

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.