Definition of outstation in English:
outstation
noun ˈaʊtsteɪʃ(ə)nˈoutˌstāSHən
1A branch of an organization situated at some distance from its headquarters.
information is passed between the Grid Control Centre and the outstations
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- Having completed two free coaching clinics, the SLTA plans many more of these clinics in the outstations.
- My advice is to go out and buy a dictionary of art terms and then visit the fair, its outstations and a few commercial galleries.
- We began on August 1, 2000 with 66 children at one of our outstations.
- Skateraw could become an outstation of the National Galleries, both as the repository of the archive and as home to new temporary shows and possibly to a sculpture park.
- These men suffered tremendous hardship and sacrifice to help open up this country and provide supplies to the distant outstations.
- We're just summer sailors who've discovered a nice spot, so we establish an outstation for the club.
- There was no real reason to make costly improvements to these outstations.
- Other register offices register births in hospitals and perhaps have outstations in other public buildings, but we were the first to go into a supermarket.
- 1.1Indian as modifier Working in a place where one does not live.
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- For the student organisers of the show, planning and scheduling the various events, looking after the guests and arranging a pleasant stay for the outstation participants were useful exercises in logistics and hospitality.
- For many women who are associated with NGOs working on public health issues, attending outstation training programs made things more difficult.
- Mr. Chandy says that the gates have to be shut on time since the groups (including outstation participants, colleges and schools) themselves come with over 40 persons.
- There will be accommodation and lunch for outstation students.
- It is a massive exercise in logistics to play host to several dozen outstation teams, arrange suitable accommodation, supply all the meals on time, and arrange transportation too.
- 1.2Australian, NZ A part of a farming estate that is separate from the main estate.
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- This former farming outstation at Koonya, near Port Arthur, housed convicts in the 1850s, and has its own museum and restored buildings.
- 1.3Australian An autonomous Aboriginal community situated at some distance from a centre on which it depends.
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- This means that the community provides the most necessary services for the outstations around it.
- Dr Bill Griffiths is director of the Northern Territory Catholic Education Office, which has schools in five major Indigenous communities and two outstations.
- She first encountered the phenomenon when one of her colleagues from the Top End related the story of a man who was evacuated from an outstation with a deteriorating medical condition.
- The Australian Electoral Commission goes to extraordinary lengths to provide voting facilities in outstations.
- It served more than 40 outstations and communities.