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/ˈaʊtbæk/ · noun
(Australia) 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.
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.
Barely a bird and definitely none of my target species greeted the morning so I cut my losses and headed north through the staggeringly vast emptiness of the Outback.
Astronomers consider the outback area around Alice Springs — with its low pollution, low humidity and few light sources — to be among the best star-gazing locations on earth.
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.
[…]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.
Use out back when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Out back means (Australia) The most remote and desolate areas of Australia; the desert and areas too arid for growing crops..
Common synonyms include remote, backwoods.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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