| 词组 | headquarter |
| 释义 | headquarter The verb headquarter is a relatively recent word. It was first recorded in 1903 and, according to our evidence, did not become common until the 1950s. It has both a transitive sense, "to place in headquarters," and an intransitive sense, "to make one's headquarters." The transitive verb is usually seen in the form of the past participle headquartered: • ... is headquartered a few blocks from the White House —Julia Malone, Christian Science Monitor, ' 10 Feb. 1981 • ... both headquartered in Texas —David Tuller, TV Guide, 11 June 1982 • ... a Xerox subsidiary headquartered in Ann Arbor —Publishers Weekly, 7 Oct. 1983 The instransitive headquarter is relatively uncommon, although its use dates back to at least the 1920s: • News that Henry J. Allen ... will headquarter in Washington —Emporia (Kans.) Gazette, 26 Dec. 1928 • ... oil companies seemed unsure where to headquarter —Newsweek, 5 July 1954 • ... who now lives and headquarters in San Antonio —Cleveland Grammar, Houston Post, 10 Sept. 1984 Headquarter became the object of scrutiny when the usage panel of Heritage 1969 was asked to vote on its acceptability "on a formal level," and proceeded to give it a resounding rejection. The panel of Heritage 1982 has repeated that rejection, and Harper 1985 has warned that headquarter "can still cause careful users of the language to shudder." While we do not doubt the truth of that observation, we suspect that there are also many careful users of the language who wonder, as we do, what the shuddering is about. In its usual use as a past participle ("... is headquartered in New York"), headquarter is a clear, concise verb that is guilty of no offense other than newness. Its occurrence in ordinary writing should dismay no reasonable person. If any shuddering is merited, it may be for the intransitive headquarter (" ... will headquarter in New York"), which, because of its relative rarity, may sound odd to some ears. |
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