base
noun [ C ]
uk/beɪs/ usthe place where a company does its main business from:
The company, which has its base in California, plans to set up an office in Beijing.
all the resources or people that a company, etc. depends on in order to be successful:
a company's economic/industrial/research base
Manchester United's fans make up 17% of its shareholder base.
See also
asset base
client base
consumer base
customer base
installed base
knowledge base
manufacturing base
product base
a positive feature of a situation that makes it possible for something else to grow and develop:
base (for sth) A cut to 10p per share would give a yield of 5.8% and a new base for dividend growth.
FINANCE
an amount of money or a number that is used to compare other amounts of money or numbers to, especially as a way of measuring whether prices or numbers have increased or decreased:
The newspaper hopes to add several million dollars to its revenue base from the switchover.
See also
cost base
monetary base
tax base
base
verb [ T + adv/prep ]
uk/beɪs/ usto have a particular country, city, etc. as the main place that you do business from:
They took the decision to base their headquarters in Germany.
Phrasal verb
base sth on sth