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outpost
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A military post stationed at a distance from the main body of troops. 2 The body of troops manning such a post. 3 An outlying settlement. 4 (context chess English) A square protected by a pawn that is in or near the enemy's stronghold.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The city began its life as a remote border outpost . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Assembly of the global outpost is scheduled to begin in late 1997. ▪ But the evasion is not completely successful, for the authorities have semantic ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Outpost is a 2008 British horror film, directed by Steve Barker and written by Rae Brunton, about a rough group of experienced mercenaries who find themselves fighting for their lives after being hired to take a mysterious businessman into the woods to ...
Usage examples of outpost.
Mars, far enough from Earth almost to be considered a Belter outpost, remained steadfastly neutral, which meant they were on both sides, selling.
At that time, outposts of Diaboli power were already within twenty light years of the outermost human centers.
Duar had become an outpost of the growing nation of Praunce when he was fifteen, and he had run away from home as the result of an argument with his father about whether the new government was a good thing.
Sometimes to resupply the hills leading to Khe Sanh, we would actually slide over the side of the mountain and just start sliding up through the fog, trying to get up to the top of the mountain to the outposts to resupply them and then, in turn, pick up medevacs and slide back down the side of the mountain till we had visual flight again.
I headed to the Selly Oak outpost of the newly renamed University Hospital to see Aggie.
The train had slackened in its speed, it was slowing for a halt at the outskirts of a town: in the distance upon the flanks of low sweeping hills he could see a bracelet of hard bright lights, and presently the outposts of the town appeared.
No town or harbor was visible along this stretch of lonely coast between Khawarism, the southernmost outpost of the Turanian kingdom, and its capital of Aghrapur.
The outposts were shot or driven in, and the stormers were on the ridge almost as soon as their presence was detected.
The commander of the outpost had come down the steps of his headquarters and was striding down the street toward us, his aide speaking quietly and rapidly as he trotted alongside the older, taller man.
If the usually optimistic Therm had any doubts about the new outpost, he did not voice them.
Then reluctantly, Torsk KurdaghVlata, Landgrave and ruler of Wannome, agreed to keep his promise to help the shipwrecked humans reach the Commonwealth outpost of Brass Monkey.
Then reluctantly, Torsk Kurdagh-Vlata, Landgrave and ruler of Wannome, agreed to keep his promise to help the shipwrecked humans reach the Commonwealth outpost of Brass Monkey.
The high-ranking officer, recently returned from establishing a military outpost on the Unallied Planet of Caladan, made an astonishing announcement concerning what he had done with the corrupted Omnius core through the duped robot captain who had delivered his deadly updates to many Synchronized Worlds.
The GPS grid coordinates you gave me, I gave to Kamil, and he called his Amn AI-Khass detachment commander right there at the border outpost.
To the north, the South Stack light house, the last outpost of Anglesey, was retreating at six knots into their wake.