off-base
located outside the perimeters of a military base: off-base housing for officers.
Origin of off-base
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How to use off-base in a sentence
Fox News, which had championed, and loudly predicted, a Mitt Romney win, was proven embarrassingly off-base.
But Boot's post is hilariously off-base: its argument can't even be reconciled with the very information he presents.
As many fact checkers quickly elucidated, the assertion was wildly off-base.
The Nine Biggest Bogus Claims of the 2012 Presidential Campaign | Abby Haglage, Lizzie Crocker | November 6, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTBut the caricature of GM as a dysfunctional jobs exporter is off-base.
It is hard enough to be told that you are off-base and that your behavior has been bad when an adult says the damning words.
The Fourth R | George Oliver Smith
These excuses for not dealing with off-base discrimination continued throughout the decade.
Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 | Morris J. MacGregor, Jr.The committee wanted the recommendations on off-base discrimination contained in its initial report also applied overseas.
Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 | Morris J. MacGregor, Jr.The decision to circumscribe the use of economic sanctions against off-base discrimination made sense.
Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 | Morris J. MacGregor, Jr.The local commander also arranged for the desegregation of some off-base social facilities in a effort to improve black morale.
Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 | Morris J. MacGregor, Jr.
Other Idioms and Phrases with off-base
Wrong, relying on a mistaken premise, as in His description of the accounting system was totally off base. This metaphoric term originated in baseball, where a runner who steps off a base can be put out. [c. 1940]
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