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单词 frontier post
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Definition of frontier post in English:

frontier post

noun
  • An official place for crossing the border between two countries or areas.

    the national police and the paramilitary civil guard carry out security checks at frontier posts
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Wanted posters blazed on the walls of every police station, railway station, airport or frontier post.
    • Long lines of packed cars were backed up at the frontier post, witnesses said.
    • Until the turn of the nineteenth century, visitors described frontier posts as dirty, dusty, and remote.
    • He received a Regular Army commission as lieutenant in 1886 and over the next several years served in several frontier posts.
    • Until the 1890s, the black regiments served almost entirely at remote western frontier posts.
    • We're at a Pakistani army frontier post.
    • It was not unusual for men to become thoroughly proficient as an infantry, cavalry, or deck officer and then languish in some isolated frontier post.
    • Even as wars raged on the main South American continent over God, gold and glory, the Spanish guarded this little frontier post doggedly.
    • Fort Winnebago, like all the American frontier posts, is an exceedingly neat place.
    • Three months later I had to leave through a different frontier post.
 
 
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