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off-base

  [awf-beys, of-]
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–adjective
located outside the perimeters of a military base: off-base housing for officers.
Origin:
1935–40
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Word Origin & History

off-base 
"unawares," 1936, Amer.Eng., fig. extension from baseball sense of "not in the right position" (1907), from notion of a baserunner being picked off while taking a lead.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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