operate from

operate from (some place)

To be established in a particular place from which one works or operates. I've been operating from the guest room in our house ever since I started writing as a freelancer. We operated from a tiny office on the lower East Side until we got enough money together to rent a better space.
See also: operate
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

operate from something

to work out of something or some place. I'm in business for myself. I operate from my home. We operate from a garage in the back of City Hall.
See also: operate
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • operate from (some place)
  • operate out of (some place)
  • guest of honor
  • I don't want to wear out my welcome
  • spend the night
  • spend the night with somebody/together
  • stay the night
  • outstay/overstay your welcome
  • overstay
  • overstay (one's) welcome
References in classic literature
Remember, also, that the surgeon must operate from above, some eight or ten feet intervening between him and his subject, and that subject almost hidden in a discolored, rolling, and oftentimes tumultuous and bursting sea.
Moby Dick LXVIII CXXXIV
The airline will operate from Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane to Bangkok, Phuket, Ho Chi Minh City, Osaka, Bali and Honolulu.
Low Cost Airline News
The H-46 does not have the legs to fly the long ranges that we do, the H-60 cannot carry the same outsized loads and the H-53 cannot operate from small-deck vessels."
HC-2 desert ducks
They want to make it possible for surgeons to operate from a nice, clean hospital room in a major city on a patient in a high-tech ambulance in a war zone or in a small town that has no surgeon.
Remote surgery
British Airways' JFK services operate from Terminal 7.
Airline News - Europe
Its service charge of [euro]1.30 per passenger is 88% lower than at the airport's main terminal and is offered to carriers that can guarantee a certain amount of traffic over three years and are willing to operate from a rather basic facility without carpet, moving walkways or escalators.
Low Cost Airline News
SN Brussels Airlines this week unveiled new inflight amenities on A330-300s that operate from Brussels to 13 African destinations.
Airline News - Europe
Air Scotland has applied for permission to operate from Miami and New York twice a week and to Havana and Toronto once a week.
Airline News May 2005