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Meanings of outpost in English

Catalan
post avançat
Spanish
base extranjera

A station in a remote or sparsely populated location.

post avançat
Spanish
avanzada

Outlying civilian settlement on or near the border of a country or empire.

avanzada
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Examples for "outstation"
Examples for "outstation"
1
Manawaukaninna, Messrs. Stuckey's outstation, unoccupied; thirteen and a half miles.
McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia
2
We saw as many as four to five mainly outstation deputy editors come and go.
Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press
3
The roll-out follows a successful nine-month trial on an outstation near Hermannsburg, south-west of Alice Springs.
The Guardian
4
In a newly opened outstation the converts subscribed $5 Mexican, a head, per annum.
Missionary Survey As An Aid To Intelligent Co-Operation In Forei...
5
But for a couple of honorable exceptions, correspondents with outstation publications too have decided to toe the government line.
Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press

Place in the periphery.

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Usage of outpost in English
1
The other outpost, and Murtaugh's other possible origin point for their spell.
Heir of Fire
2
Will Grant reports from the remains of this American outpost in Cuba.
BBC
3
He said we would send a message to the outpost tomorrow night.
The Complete Rama Omnibus
4
A remote outpost in the sea for people with nowhere to go.
Depths
5
But the first outpost going that way was hundreds of miles distant.
Anathem
6
Still, they used it to launch an attack on an unimportant outpost.
Star Wars: Tarkin
7
General Motors products are well represented, and there's even an Opel outpost.
Wired
8
Here the Salvation Army had an outpost in a partially destroyed residence.
The War Romance of the Salvation Army
9
He had none; only national feelings, this outpost of the national organism.
My Year of the War / Including an Account of Experiences with th...
10
From Plevlje I rode to Prijepolje, the furthest military outpost of Austria.
Twenty Years of Balkan Tangle
11
Perhaps this was simply an outpost where they stashed fugitives like us.
The accidental demon slayer
12
Kadena is the Pentagon's most important outpost for East Asian air operations.
Wired
13
NYU, which is building an outpost in Shanghai, strenuously rejected the claim.
Reuters
14
The ships at Kleopatra, home to a Juke outpost and processing facility.
Earth Afire
15
Had they sacrificed her as they had their victims in the outpost?
Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light
16
The outpost stood a hundred yards to the left of him reloading.
The Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson)
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United States of America
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