outback

CEFRB2

/ˈaʊtbæk/

noun · verb

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In plain English

01
noun
A remote area far from towns, especially in Australia.
02
noun
Extra detail
Characteristic of the most remote and desolate areas of Australia; very remote from urban areas.

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At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

To or towards the most remote and desolate areas of Australia.
The most remote and desolate areas of Australia; the desert and areas too arid for growing crops.

Extra meaning

In context

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.
2008, Mike Keenan, The Shadows of Horses, Easyread Large Edition, page 135, We had a frosty meeting and he took me around to the AML&F Co′s staff officer, requesting a jackaroo position for me on the company′s most outback station in Queensland.
In the outback, many people live and work on sheep and cattle ranches.

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In the outback, many people live and work on sheep and cattle ranches.
2000, Shirley W. Gray, Australia, page 31
The 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.
2002, Erinn Banting., Australia: The People, page 20
[…]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.
1964, Western Australian Parliament, Parliamentary Debates, page 3081
In the Northern Territory, arguably the most outback of Australian states, police are still not armed.
1996, David H. Bayley, Police for the Future, page 70
From Bathurst the Mitchell Highway heads northwest through Dubbo and Bourke Nyngan then continues for almost 200 km to the most outback of towns Bourke.
2002, Andrew Swaffer, Katrina O'Brien, Darroch Donald, Australia: Handbook, page 215

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