Do these two sentences imply different meanings?
Our company is based in Melbourne, Australia.
Our company is located in Melbourne, Australia.
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I would say so, yes.
It's subtle, though.
"based" implies that you are speaking of a head office even though the business may have sub-offices.
Some employee in the US might say: "Sony is based in Japan" [although they probably have offices in America]
"located" is simply specifying the location.
"The Sony head office is located in Japan"
"Based in" simply adds a bit of information about where the main office of a company is. Not always the case, but in many cases.
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True, except that no one would say that Kodak is based in Japan. :)– mmyersCommented Aug 23, 2010 at 16:09
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Had a friend who worked for Kodak. He always was talking about transferring to Japan... so it stuck in my head for some reason. I'll change it to... Sony! Commented Aug 23, 2010 at 16:36
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2Agree, but would point out that using based in X implies that there are significant operations elsewhere, whereas located in Y implies that essentially the entire operation is there.– moiociCommented Aug 24, 2010 at 2:35
For how I understand it, based at Shirley means the center of operations are on Shirley, while located in Shirley could refer to one of the agencies of the business.
answered Aug 23, 2010 at 7:01
