Meaning & use
redoubt
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a small, often temporary fortification built to defend a strategic position, or, figuratively, a place of refuge or resistance.
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The soldiers built a redoubt to hold the hilltop against attack.
The old bookstore remained a redoubt of independent publishing in a city of chain stores.
A note on using this word
Redoubt is often used figuratively today to describe a last stronghold of some idea, tradition, or group resisting change, beyond its original military sense.
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