outstation

American  

[out-stey-shuhn] / ˈaʊtˌsteɪ ʃən /

noun

1. a post, station, or settlement in a remote or outlying area.

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outstation British  

/ ˈaʊtˌsteɪʃən /

noun

1. a station or post in a remote region

2. in a radio network, any station other than the base station

3. a station set up independently of the head station of a large sheep or cattle farm

4. the programme to resettle native Australians on their tribal lands

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adverb

1. (in Malaysia) away from (the speaker's) town or area

Etymology

Origin of outstation

First recorded in 1835–45; out- + station

Example Sentences

Chandrakar used to also work as a "stringer" for news organisations, where his job involved providing outstation journalists with information about a story or sometimes, even chaperoning them through Maoist strongholds.

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2025

His mother, Gill discovered after World War II intelligence was declassified in 1974, had been one of the human “computers” who helped crack Germany’s Enigma code at an outstation of Bletchley Park.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 18, 2023

When not at Maningrida, he likes to spend time at Milmilngkan, a remote outstation on a creek with nearby waterholes and a spring that bubbles up amid a pandanus grove.

From Washington Post • Aug. 31, 2018

The last British outstation in southern Afghanistan, an observation post called Sterga 2 above the Helmand river, closed in May.

From Economist • Aug. 14, 2014

The farthest outstation north in 1860-61 was that of W. Stenhouse, on the Clarke, a tributary of the Burdekin.

From Early Days in North Queensland by Palmer, Edward