outpostnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈaʊt.pəʊst/us/ˈaʊt.poʊst/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:
a police/military/colonial outpost
a rare example of something that is disappearing:
Free jazz has been described as the last outpost of modernism.
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