[
UK
/ˈaʊtpəʊst/
]
[ US /ˈaʊtˌpoʊst/ ]
[ US /ˈaʊtˌpoʊst/ ]
NOUN
- a military post stationed at a distance from the main body of troops
- a station in a remote or sparsely populated location
- a settlement on the frontier of civilization
How To Use outpost In A Sentence
- I've seen leadership schools set out on the fringes, including one in an outpost of Jerusalem that teaches would-be messiahs to lead in the coming apocalypse.
- Wanat was a horrific insurgent attack on a U.S. combat outpost in eastern Afghanistan last summer that left nine soldiers dead and 27 wounded. Way Up In The Sky Is The Leader Of The Greatest Band Of All Time | ATTACKERMAN
- This is an outpost of the original creamery, which is down the road. HotelChatter -
- London was a seemingly remote outpost of what was then an organisation largely focused on the US. Times, Sunday Times
- The blast occurred about 30 minutes ago near a military outpost and appeared to have come either from a car bomb or a tunnel.
- There is talk of a massive fall in profits and a slump in turnover - talk that some outposts of the empire were simply not performing well enough to survive.
- We have always said that our story is like the story of the frontier towns and the hinterland outposts.
- He ornamented such unexceptional oaters as ‘The Last Outpost,’ ‘Tennessee's Partner’ and ‘Cattle Queen of Montana’.
- And I just visited an outpost, what we call a provisional reconstruction team in Zabul Province, where this fighting is going on. CNN Transcript Jun 18, 2006
- She also acted as a radar picket and re-supplied Army outposts and British Antarctic Scientists on South Georgia, 800 miles from the Falklands.