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off-base

[awf-beys, of-]

adjective

  1. located outside the perimeters of a military base.

    off-base housing for officers.



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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of off-base1

First recorded in 1935–40
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Idioms and Phrases

Wrong, relying on a mistaken premise, as in His description of the accounting system was totally off base. This metaphoric term originated in baseball, where a runner who steps off a base can be put out. [c. 1940]
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Some were wildly off-base; others lined up perfectly with what I’d seen and heard.

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Live Nation says the arguments are off-base and will probably fail in court.

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Senior Airman Roger Fortson, 23, who was based at the Special Operations Wing at Hurlburt Field, was in his off-base apartment in Fort Walton Beach when the shooting happened on May 3.

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In a paper published Monday in “The Anatomical Record,” an international team of paleontologists, neuroscientists and behavioral scientists argue that Herculano-Houzel’s assumptions about brain cavity size and corresponding neuron counts were off-base.

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Voting rights advocates have argued the elections office’s legal interpretations have been way off-base.

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