Usually means: Remote location for specific activities.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word outpost:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. outpost: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. outpost: Merriam-Webster
  3. outpost: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. outpost: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. outpost: Collins English Dictionary
  6. outpost: Vocabulary.com
  7. Outpost, outpost: Wordnik
  8. outpost: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. outpost: Wiktionary
  10. outpost: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. outpost: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. outpost: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Outpost, outpost: Dictionary.com
  14. outpost: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. outpost: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Outpost (Freddie Hubbard album), Outpost (The Samples album), Outpost (chess), Outpost (computer game), Outpost (military), Outpost (video game), Outpost, The Outpost (Prus novel), The Outpost (Resnick novel), The Outpost (TV series), The Outpost (opera), The Outpost: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Outpost: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. outpost: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. outpost: Rhymezone
  20. Outpost: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. outpost: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. outpost: FreeDictionary.org
  23. outpost: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. outpost: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Outpost (disambiguation), The Outpost, outpost: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. outpost: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. outpost: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. outpost: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A military post stationed at a distance from the main body of troops.
noun:  The body of troops manning such a post.
noun:  An outlying settlement.
noun:  (chess) A square protected by a pawn that is in or near the enemy's stronghold.

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