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Definition of "home base" []
- An objective toward which players of certain games, such as backgammon, progress. (noun)
- Baseball Home plate. (noun)
- A base of operations; a headquarters. (noun)
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Use "home base" in a sentence
- "October, a KC-135A of the 42d Bomb Wing, Loring AFB, Maine, had completed a six-hour training mission and was returning to the home base when it exploded in mid-air over Canada."
- "EXCEPTION: A run is not scored if the runner advances to home base during a play in which the third out is made (1) by the batter-runner before he touches first base; (2) by any runner being forced out; or (3) by a preceding runner who is declared out because he failed to touch one of the bases."
- "Besides having a home base from which I would train for and climb nine of the most challenging fourteeners in the state that winter, I was surrounded by an entire town of like-minded friends."