outback
Collocations
5ADJ.
alone, dead, live, lost, many, most, prepared, red
VERB + OUTBACK
camping, desert, flying, go, lives, wander
OUTBACK + NOUN
areas, australian, bourke, country, june, page, people, queensland
PREP.
in, in
ADV.
arguably
Definitions
noun
The most remote and desolate areas of Australia; the desert and areas too arid for growing crops.
1951 June, W. J. Banks, Flying Doctors of the Outback, The Rotarian, page 23, Communication like this is making a big change in the lives of Australia′s “outback” people.
In the outback, many people live and work on sheep and cattle ranches.
adj
Characteristic of the most remote and desolate areas of Australia; very remote from urban areas.
[…]the Civil Service Association is not particularly happy with the decision of the Government in regard to rents and the way they will be levied on its members in the more outback country areas.
In the Northern Territory, arguably the most outback of Australian states, police are still not armed.
adv
To or towards the most remote and desolate areas of Australia.
If we want this country to develop, we have to depend on men who are prepared to go outback and try to discover new shows.
This has allowed Australians really to go outback in some reasonable comfort to see the attractions of this country.
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61951 June, W. J. Banks, Flying Doctors of the Outback, The Rotarian, page 23, Communication like this is making a big change in the lives of Australia′s “outback” people.
WiktionaryIn the outback, many people live and work on sheep and cattle ranches.
WiktionaryThe outback′s rich, red soil looked like blood because of all the iron in it, and the vast land was so still and barren that it seemed lifeless.
Wiktionary[…]the Civil Service Association is not particularly happy with the decision of the Government in regard to rents and the way they will be levied on its members in the more outback country areas.
WiktionaryIn the Northern Territory, arguably the most outback of Australian states, police are still not armed.
WiktionaryFrom Bathurst the Mitchell Highway heads northwest through Dubbo and Bourke Nyngan then continues for almost 200 km to the most outback of towns Bourke.
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