Illustration: A neighbourhood river-cleanup team uses a small riverside storehouse as its base. At the open entrance, a coordinator hands gloves and litter tongs to volunteers heading toward the embankment. Another pair returns with filled sacks and brings the reusable equipment back to organised racks inside.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

拠きょ点てん

kyoten

base of operations

Example sentences

  1. リストラされた彼かれは心機一転しんきいってん、自宅じたくを拠点きょてんにＳＯＨＯビジネスを始はじめた。

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

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 反政府派はんせいふはの拠点きょてんを攻撃こうげきした。

    We attacked the base of the opposition forces.

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  3. 当時とうじは京都競馬場きょうとけいばじょうを活動かつどう拠点きょてんとしていた。

    At first the Kyoto racetrack was its main base of activity.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 拠点

  • 拠foothold; based onOnキョ・コKunよる
  • 点spot; pointOnテンKunつける・つく・たてる

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