outpost Betydning & definition

Eksempler på outpost

• They had little to occupy themselves during the days, weeks, or sometimes months they spent on these lonely outposts of the colonies.

• In other reserves tax collectors made periodic trips to the outposts to collect tax.

• Robotic outposts are, we are told, relatively new mission concepts.

• A jihad was declared, and the party began military operations against government infrastructure, military outposts and resident highlanders.

• The city's experts and administrators projected many such outposts into the rural landscape around them.

• Correspondingly there are other areas, too, that still or already lie in shadow as outposts or stragglers.

• The quarantine system did not provide what was needed for individuals incarcerated on isolated outposts after a long voyage, particularly for those who were healthy.

• Rather than serving as curious outposts of a bizarre and self-contradictory religion, mission schools were supported by those who understood their moral, social and humanistic utility.