observation post

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noun Military.

a forward position, often on high ground, from which enemy activity can be observed and, particularly, from which artillery or mortar fire can be directed.

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How to use observation post in a sentence

Go through the Rue d'Estaires, in which there is a large and very high armoured shelter that served as an observation-post.
Ypres and the Battles of Ypres|Unknown
Then he crept back to his observation post overlooking the study.
The Daffodil Mystery|Edgar Wallace
Finally we reached the observation-post, carefully screened by an artificial bower of pine boughs.
Over the Front in an Aeroplane and Scenes Inside the French and Flemish Trenches|Ralph Pulitzer
The Falcon, steaming valiantly to her observation post near the buoy, aided him considerably.
The Pillar of Light|Louis Tracy

When she went on out of sight in brushwood, he turned back toward the mountain on which Vale had occupied an observation post.
Operation Terror|William Fitzgerald Jenkins

British Dictionary definitions for observation post

observation post

noun

military a position from which observations can be made or from which fire can be directedAbbreviation: OP

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