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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An objective toward which players of certain games, such as backgammon, progress.
- noun Baseball Home plate.
- noun A base of operations; a headquarters.
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- noun baseball
Home plate . - noun business
Headquarters .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise
- noun (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score
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