staging ground

noun

Synonyms of staging groundnext
: a place where something is planned or initiated

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In December 2014 Oleg Ostapenko, then head of Roscosmos, said the agency was considering a high-latitude station that would allow observation of most of Russia’s territory and could potentially serve as a staging ground for future lunar missions. Ilya Ferapontov, Scientific American, 29 Dec. 2025 Protesters gathered outside of Coast Guard Island in Alameda in October after news broke that federal agents were planning to use the site as a staging ground for immigration operations. Sierra Lopez, Mercury News, 20 Dec. 2025 Almost all the world’s coca, the raw material for the drug, is produced in three Latin American countries—Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru—and virtually every other country in the region is a staging ground for smuggling and, increasingly, is a consumer market in its own right. Brian Winter, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025 Belarus has allowed Moscow to use its territory as a staging ground for the invasion of Ukraine, and later allowed the deployment of Russian tactical nuclear missiles on its soil. CBS News, 27 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for staging ground

Word History

First Known Use

1970, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of staging ground was in 1970

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“Staging ground.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/staging%20ground. Accessed 14 Jan. 2026.

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