Meaning

2 senses
  1. A base where troops and gear gather before deployment or transit.

    The outpost near the border was used as a staging area for the army's invasion.

    an area where troops and equipment in transit are assembled before a military operation

  2. (broadly, figuratively)A place to gather in preparation.

Forms

plural: staging areas
Singularstaging area
Pluralstaging areas

regular

See also

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