0 a place, especially a small group of buildings or a town, that represents the authority or business interests of a government or company that is far away: --
1 a small town or group of buildings in a place that is far away, usually established as a center for military or trade operations --
2 an office or store that belongs to a large company but is a long way from that company's headquarters (= main office): --
Today, the red squirrel has retreated to a few outposts.
Do we want to maintain, nourish and expand our commercial and financial outposts across the world?
I should have thought that, from their point of view, by doing this they were abandoning the outposts of the privileged society that they defend.
Stronger volitions overtake him, and his body becomes an extreme outpost of an idea.
In an isolated colonial outpost, economic levelling and the necessities of everyday life likely increased both interaction and material accommodation.
Given the creation of this sensibility, it is not surprising that so many poems of retirement, like so many country houses themselves, reconstituted urban sophistication in rural outposts.
Do parents who live in crime-ridden inner cities and vulnerable outposts have a moral obligation to abandon their homes, neighbors, and social ideals for safer places?
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.
