拠点

Meaning

1. n
   base (of operations); site; location; center; foothold; stronghold; (strategic) position

Example sentences

• リストラされた彼は心機一転、自宅を拠点にＳＯＨＯビジネスを始めた。

  After getting downsized he started off on a clean slate and started a business working out of a home office.

• パリが１７８９年の革命以前ですら頻繁な暴動の拠点であったという見解には十分な根拠がある。

  There are good grounds for the view that Paris was the scene of frequent riots even before the revolution of 1789.