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What is a bridgehead?

What is a bridgehead? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An area around the end of a bridge.
  2. (military) A fortification around the end of a bridge.
  3. (military) An area of ground on the enemy's side of a river or other obstacle, especially one that needs to be taken and defended in order to secure an advance.
  4. (chemistry) Either of the two atoms in different parts of a molecule that are connected by a bridge of two or more other atoms
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After the 2005 opening in Taiwan, Chaumet opened a major store in Hong Kong in September, the bridgehead of its expansion in China.
Alexandria, on the western tip of the Nile delta, will be the Group's bridgehead.
By the end of January he had secured his bridgehead in Tunisia and had given Rommel a safe enclave to move into.
The idea is that Brazil becomes our bridgehead for the southern cone, within the next 3-5 years.
The new office in Vienna will support development of the Austrian market and will also serve as a bridgehead for operations further east.
Finally a bridgehead would be established, and they crossed the canal to take control of the road north.

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