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ˈout-ˌstation
[out- 1, 3.]
a. A station at a distance from head-quarters or from the centre of population or business; a subordinate station on the outskirts of a district, etc. Also attrib. Esp. in Austral. and N.Z. use (cf. station n. 14).
1844Asiatic Jrnl. June 120 Life in an Indian outstation is, indeed, as simple a one as can well be imagined. Ibid. June 127 In outstation life there is..more intercourse between European and native society. 1844Port Phillip Patriot 11 July 1/3 (Morris), There are four out-stations with huts, hurdles..and every convenience. 1859H. Kingsley G. Hamlyn xxvii, Sam started off..to visit one of their out-station huts. 1859F. Fuller Five Years' Residence N.Z. viii. 157 Out-stations are started for the shepherds, who watch separate flocks, to live in. 1862R. Henning Let. 29 Sept. (1966) 107 Another bedroom wherein reside any other members of the ‘staff’ who happen to be at home—more than half are always at the out-stations. 1870Wentworth Amos Thorne iii. 26 On an outstation in the Australian bush. 1882H. De Windt Equator 34 The remainder are quartered at the various forts or out-stations along the coast, and in the interior of the country. 1911C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling xxxv. 311 When the out-station was reached, she rang up. 1944F. Clune Red Heart 64 Southwards he trudged, came to the out⁓station of the Darling Downs. 1947P. Newton Wayleggo (1949) 154 Some high country districts are so extensive that it is necessary to have a second homestead situated in some distant part of the property. Such a place is termed an ‘out-station’. 1954G. Durrell Three Singles to Adventure v. 122, I prefer not to remember the ride to the outstation.
b. A subordinate branch of a business or other enterprise. Also attrib.
Some examples are not clearly distinguishable from those in sense a.
1872W. F. Butler Great Lone Land (ed. 2) xi. 161 About five miles from the mouth of Rainy River there was a small out-station of the Hudson Bay Company kept by a man named Morrisseau. 1962Housewife (Ceylon) Feb. 8 For the benefit of our outstation members, who have borne with us for so long, we will be opening branch Associations in Kandy and Galle very shortly. 1968D. Lampe Last Ditch xii. 135 Underground broadcasting from fixed stations is untenable. The out-station operators would have been in great danger. 1970Guardian 24 Aug. 14/1 Small outstations dealing with separate processes in the manufacturing cycle have been established in towns up to 20 miles from the city. 1973Sunday Advocate-News (Barbados) 21 Jan. 2/5 He first appeared in uniform on normal patrol work attached to Central Station. He next underwent a short spell of duty at ‘out⁓stations’ before returning to the Bridgetown Division office to take up clerical duties. 1975Times 9 June 13/8 (Advt.), National Railway Museum..York..an out⁓station of the Science Museum London. |