Definition of "outstation" []

• A remote station or post. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Bus and taxi services cover both town areas and 'outstation' destinations."
• "'outstation' always has romantic reverberations for me, tho it's really no more exciting a word than 'watertank'."
• "A field station is based at Cap Iouik (Iwik), with an outstation at Oued Chibka, equipped for six researchers and four support staff; it has three Zodiac boats, one motor launch, a radio station and is accessible by four-wheel drive, motor launch or light aircraft."