outposted
Sent to guard
Outposted means stationed at or assigned to an outpost—a remote or forward position away from the main body.
Military units get outposted to distant locations; personnel find themselves outposted in isolated assignments: He spent three years outposted to a remote Arctic station.
The word suggests distance from headquarters or civilization.
Edge of settlement
- wildernessUncultivated, uninhabited natural region
- far-flungScattered over vast areas
- inaccessibleCannot be reached
- peripheralExternal computer add-on
fringe · borderland · backwoods · hinterland · stationed · garrison · sentry · watchtower
frontier
Edge of settlement
- wildernessUncultivated, uninhabited natural region
- far-flungScattered over vast areas
- inaccessibleCannot be reached
peripheral · fringe · borderland · backwoods · hinterland · stationed · garrison · sentry · watchtower · encampment
secluded
Set apart, private
- detachedApart or uninvolved
- maroonedLeft stranded and helpless
- sequesteredRemoved from contact
cut-off · disconnected · stranded · removed · separated · distant · forsaken · solitary · alone · exposed
outpostedcentralized
Concentrated in one location
headquartered · consolidated · massed · concentrated · garrisoned
outpostedrecalled
Brought back mentally
withdrawn · undeployed · repatriated · pulled back · stood down
- military outpostRemote armed forces station
- remote outpostIsolated settlement far away
- frontier outpostRemote settlement near boundaries
- colonial outpostSettlement in conquered territory
- desert outpostRemote settlement in arid wilderness
- scientific outpostRemote facility for inquiry