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outpost

[ out-pohst ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

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.

outpost

/ ˈaʊtˌpəʊst /

military
1. a position stationed at a distance from the area occupied by a major formation
2. the troops assigned to such a position
an outlying settlement or position
a limit or frontier

Origin of outpost¹

First recorded in 1750–60; out- + post ²

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.

Zalwar Khan recalled he occasionally marched to the Korengal Outpost seeking the release of detained villagers.

A former store manager at a Malibu, California outpost filed a lawsuit in December of 2012.

On July 4, 2009, a human wave of insurgents attacked the joint U.S./Afghan outpost at Zerok.

If 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.

For fifty years it was a kind of outpost of that part of the State.

He might be a Boer outpost anxious to ascertain if we were Englishmen.

Before he was twenty he was learning outpost duty in the Austrian frontier cavalry.

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