outpost
noun
out·post
ˈau̇t-ˌpōst 
1
a
: a security detachment dispatched by a main body of troops to protect it from enemy surprise
b
: a military base established by treaty or agreement in another country
2
a
: an outlying or frontier settlement
b
: an outlying branch or position of a main organization or group
Examples of outpost in a Sentence
an American outpost in Africa
The city was established as a military outpost in the 1800s.
a remote outpost of the old British Empire
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Richard Godwin, Travel + Leisure, 12 July 2025
Philippe Chow, the upscale Beijing-style restaurant out of New York, will officially open its Nashville outpost in August.
—Hadley Hitson, The Tennessean, 11 July 2025
Yet old legends linger, and people still talk about a lost city of the Everglades, where gangster Al Capone may have had an outpost.
—Mike Bezemek, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2025
Crossing the threshold at the New York City outpost of Biograph—a high-end diagnostic clinic that opened here this spring—feels like stepping into a different world.
—Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 10 July 2025
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outpost
noun
out·post
ˈau̇t-ˌpōst
1
: a guard stationed at a distance from a military force or camp
2
: the position occupied by an outpost
3
: a settlement on a frontier or in a faraway place
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