staging area

noun

: an area in which participants in a new especially military operation or mission are assembled and readied

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Construction staging areas will also restrict some shoreline and parking space. Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 May 2025 For safety purposes, the closed section will serve as a staging area for equipment and construction vehicles, while the rest of the loop will remain open for public use. Todd Karpovich, Baltimore Sun, 29 Mar. 2025 Media staging area will be at 17th and Pennsylvania. William Lambers, Newsweek, 9 Mar. 2025 Speaking in the world's largest Arctic Circle city of Murmansk, home to a Russian naval fleet, Putin told a forum last week that the region could be a staging area for war. Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for staging area

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First Known Use

1943, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of staging area was in 1943

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“Staging area.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/staging%20area. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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