Meanings of term base in English

Captain Cook Wharf is intended as the long- term base for giant cruise ships, once major re-development work was completed.

Like Big Tobacco, Big Food is relentless in its quest for an impressionable, long- term base, and children are the perfect target.

Dr Graf says Christchurch was chosen as the project's long- term base because of the facilities already available there courtesy of the US Antarctic programme.

Gundlach said on Tuesday's webcast that he sees the yield on the 10-year Treasury settling around 1.7 percent as a near- term base case.

Some of them are more frequency and technical term based.

We do not see an upgrade as likely in the near term based on the current levels of debt leverage.

Not that 2014 should be mistaken for a date at which the war ends: senior administration officials are quietly negotiating long- term basing accords with Afghanistan.