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What does outpost mean?

outpost

a military post stationed at a distance from the main body of troops (= outstation) a station in a remote or sparsely populated location (= frontier settlement) a settlement on the frontier of civilization

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Till eventually I trailed him to the most extreme outpost in Tibet.
A convoy could meet us at our Amarillo outpost rush the gold to Galveston, then by a blockade runner all the way around to Wilmington, then here.
Then you miss the Union outpost at Mormon Station.
Must have bust coming down that big hill after we left the outpost.
Do you think he's at a British outpost?
Besides, who's to see you here in this abandoned outpost of humanity?
It could be there's a British outpost up there.
I fully realize that prolonged duty in a small outpost can lead to carelessness and inefficiency, and laxity in dress and deportment.
The government will do all it can to protect this British outpost.
A lousy, undefendable outpost?
Most of that time I spent on the north-west frontier, just travelling around from one outpost to the other.
Isn't it wonderful to see an American ship in this godforsaken outpost?
A small detail of United States cav alrymen were escorting the survivors to a hastily-established outpost.
Colonel Homer Reed in command of a troop of cavalry whose assignment was to hold the lonely outpost at any cost and to protect the settlers in the adjacent area.
Hadj Hamou will take you to the French outpost.
You're not fighting one outpost, you're fighting the entire British army.
This is the last outpost for me, Jim.
After that we witness a huge battlefield of nature, where spruces, icicled with lichen, stand like icy grey warriors as the last outpost of life against the bastions of eternal snow.
You get there, you outpost the town.
Maybe somebody has set up an outpost on our moon.
I'm off to the outpost.
Your space station was an outpost from which you intended to attack us.
He will also make contact with an outpost not found on a military map- an outpost called the twilight zone.
Boston, that provincial outpost.
Do you think Waco's reached a British outpost yet?
Headquarters, this is command outpost.
You know who I met by chance, up at the abandoned hunting outpost?
Isn't it wonderful to see an American ship in this godforsaken outpost? It is indeed.
In the meantime' how about getting this 5-7 out to every relay outpost in the quadrant as soon as it comes in?
Kirk here. - Still no answer from Earth Outpost Number 2, captain.
Maintain course to Outpost 4.
Earth Outpost 4 reports they're under attack.
Patrolling outposts guarding the Neutral Zone between planets Romulus and Remus and the rest of the galaxy received emergency call from Outpost 4.
Outpost 4 reported under attack, sir.
Position, eight minutes from Outpost 4 at this velocity, sir.
Did Outpost 4 give anything at all on the attacking vessel, lieutenant?

News and current affairs

The paradox is that, by maintaining a political distance and thus limiting Turkey's options, Europe may end up reinforcing Turkey's status as a military outpost of the US.
But, whereas the struggle between China and Japan for dominance over Korea was the focal point of the East Asian drama, Taiwan was but a side-show, a mere outpost to the Imperial Qing Dynasty, while Korea was a vassal paying tribute to China.
For example, in August 2011, a jihadi group from Gaza seized control of an Egyptian outpost on Israel's border and killed eight Israeli civilians.
Indeed, the only role Pakistan plays in this respect is as an outpost for Central Asian terrorists.
And Syria, the last Russian outpost of the Cold War, is an asset the Kremlin will do its utmost to maintain.

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