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- noun Plural form of
outstation .
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Examples
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There were outstations of course, but in those days the larger extra facilities were only on the drawing board.
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What is particularly significant about the women at Bletchley Park and its outstations was that they were recruited as the first machine operators and did not replace men, as was the usual procedure in other types of war work.
The Women of Bletchly Park Peggy 2008
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Roman finds have been a major boost to other parts of northern England, notably along Hadrian's Wall and its outstations, which include Glannaventa naval base at Ravenglass, on the Cumbrian coast, whose 12ft-high walls are among the highest Roman remains in Britain.
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What is particularly significant about the women at Bletchley Park and its outstations was that they were recruited as the first machine operators and did not replace men, as was the usual procedure in other types of war work.
Archive 2008-06-01 Peggy 2008
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As nurse to a community of 2,000 Alyawarre and Anmatyerre people scattered about the Utopia area in some twenty-five outstations and small family groups, Theo knew just about everyone.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Others come simply for grog from the supermarket because it is banned from the desert outstations.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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G4 doesn't have computers at ticket counters or gate podiums at their outstations (or at least at GSP), and they pre-board everyone with small children (about 1 / 2 of most flights), but they get folks checked in and boarded very quickly.
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As nurse to a community of 2,000 Alyawarre and Anmatyerre people scattered about the Utopia area in some twenty-five outstations and small family groups, Theo knew just about everyone.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Others come simply for grog from the supermarket because it is banned from the desert outstations.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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If people are to locate near a labour market they will come to town and lest they end up in town camps and re-create the appalling behaviour of outstations then they will have to be managed.
Archive 2008-06-01 Bill Kerr 2008
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