outpost
a station established at a distance from the main body of an army to protect it from surprise attack: We keep only a small garrison of men at our desert outposts.
the body of troops stationed there; detachment or perimeter guard.
an outlying settlement, installation, position, etc.
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How to use outpost in a sentence
After all, local materials would be most practical if people ever build outposts on the Red Planet.
A soil-based ‘concrete’ could make buildings green, even on Mars | Kathiann Kowalski | December 22, 2020 | Science News For StudentsIn reality, though, freezers likely won’t be the reason these more remote outposts don’t get vaccines.
Rural America may miss out on early COVID-19 vaccines | Tara Santora | December 18, 2020 | Popular-ScienceI heard someone ask about building the military outpost in the South China Sea.
The Trailer: Republicans build their own fan clubs in Iowa | David Weigel | October 29, 2020 | Washington PostTake in the live tunes along with the newest outpost of Union Pie, which slings crispy bar-style pizzas on the Wharf.
The best things to do — virtually and in person — while quarantined in the D.C. area | Going Out Guide Staff | October 29, 2020 | Washington PostThe moves cast uncertainty over the future of the Everett, Washington, campus—the company’s largest outpost.
Today, the city is an Asian hipster outpost, with shopping malls, clothing boutiques, and mixologist-prepared cocktails.
The Cubans pulled up to the outpost and crammed the survivors into an open-body jeep and a pickup truck.
‘Argo’ in the Congo: The Ghosts of the Stanleyville Hostage Crisis | Nina Strochlic | November 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTZalwar Khan recalled he occasionally marched to the Korengal outpost seeking the release of detained villagers.
Heart of Darkness: Into Afghanistan’s Taliban Valley | Matt Trevithick, Daniel Seckman | November 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA former store manager at a Malibu, California outpost filed a lawsuit in December of 2012.
His Reputation Precedes Him: Dov Charney’s Blacklist | Justin Jones | June 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOn July 4, 2009, a human wave of insurgents attacked the joint U.S./Afghan outpost at Zerok.
We Lost Soldiers in the Hunt for Bergdahl, a Guy Who Walked Off in the Dead of Night | Nathan Bradley Bethea | June 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIf the military situation permits, all troops are put into quarters, only the outpost troops bivouacking.
I lost no time in crossing and had barely cleared the river-bank before I was held up by an outpost.
A Virginia Scout | Hugh PendexterFor fifty years it was a kind of outpost of that part of the State.
Captains of Industry | James PartonHe might be a Boer outpost anxious to ascertain if we were Englishmen.
My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War | Ben Viljoen.Before he was twenty he was learning outpost duty in the Austrian frontier cavalry.
Lord Ormont and his Aminta, Complete | George Meredith
British Dictionary definitions for outpost
/ (ˈaʊtˌpəʊst) /
military
a position stationed at a distance from the area occupied by a major formation
the troops assigned to such a position
an outlying settlement or position
a limit or frontier
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