Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A remote station or post.

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  • noun A station or post in a remote position; an outpost
  • adverb Indian, Singaporean Out of town (but usually within the same country).
  • adjective Indian, Singaporean Out of town (but usually within the same country).

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  • noun a station in a remote or sparsely populated location

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Examples

  • Bus and taxi services cover both town areas and 'outstation' destinations.

    Brudirect News1 Heidi Munan 2009

  • 'outstation' always has romantic reverberations for me, tho it's really no more exciting a word than 'watertank'.

    The View from Elsewhere 2008

  • Indeed, he tells how he slept with a loaded rifle after being threatened by disgruntled whites for helping to establish a Cape York outstation in the early 70s.

    Untruth by omission Bill Kerr 2009

  • Indeed, he tells how he slept with a loaded rifle after being threatened by disgruntled whites for helping to establish a Cape York outstation in the early 70s.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Bill Kerr 2009

  • And an outstation of the Agency had Sluice Operator as a job grade.

    [hr] and the mania for box ticking 2009

  • A field station is based at Cap Iouik (Iwik), with an outstation at Oued Chibka, equipped for six researchers and four support staff; it has three Zodiac boats, one motor launch, a radio station and is accessible by four-wheel drive, motor launch or light aircraft.

    Banc d'Arguin National Park, Mauritania 2009

  • She forgets to mention that back then; even the outstation Nick (which now contains Traffic Wardens, a Dog catcher and one Community officer) had an Inspector, three Sergeants and sixteen Bobbies.

    See You Next Tuesday « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2006

  • § Home Away From Home to provide accommodation for children and their families corning from outstation for treatment in the city.

    Cancer Survivor- GOD MOTHER 2007

  • I also returned to the skiing outstation of the Federal Sports School in

    Kurt Wüthrich - Autobiography 2003

  • When a death was announced in the provinces, foul play suspected and the Yard had been called in, more often than not it was an officer from the Reserve Squad who went tooling off to an outstation, or to a provincial nick that needed assistance in a headline murder case.

    Bottled Spider Gardner, John 2002

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