Staging Area

  

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Staging Area

Definition: Staging Area

Staging Area

Noun

1. An area where troops and equipment in transit are assembled before a military operation.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Staging Area

DomainDefinition

General

Area adjacent to main event area for set up, dismantling and temporary storage. Source: European Union. (references)

Military

1. Amphibious or airborne--A general locality between the mounting area and the objective of an amphibious or airborne expedition, through which the expedition or parts thereof pass after mounting, for refueling, regrouping of ships, and/or exercise, inspection, and redistribution of troops. 2. Other movements--A general locality established for the concentration of troop units and transient personnel between movements over the lines of communications. See also marshalling; stage. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: Staging Area

English words defined with "staging area": Gateway to the WestSaint Louis, St. Louis. (references)

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Photo Album: Staging Area

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In an area north of the city of Al-Basrah, Iraq, which borders Iran, a former wetland has been drained and walled off. Now littered with minefields and gun emplacements, it is a staging area for military exercises. Credit: NASA.

A RI EPA vessel was donated for the 1997 transplant operation. The staging area was off Prudence Island. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

The staging area at Greenwich Bay, RI. Shellfishermen were hired by RI DEM to harvest quahogs from polluted areas to be transferred to clean areas where they could depurate, or cleanse themselves. The shellfish were protected from harvest and were later allowed to be harvested after they had spawned and contributed to wild stocks. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

One of the many boats that helped to transfer NOAA volunteers from the staging area to the clean-up sites. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Peter Clark of Tampa Baywatch, left, addresses volunteers at the staging area before the workers depart to begin the clean-up. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

The spyder brings logs to the staging area at the Glade Bekken restoration site. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Staging Area

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

The Bahamas

Many ancestors arrived in the Bahama Islands when they served as a staging area for the slave trade in the early 1800s. Others accompanied thousands of British loyalists who fled the American colonies during the Revolutionary War. (references)

New Zealand

Christchurch is the staging area for joint logistical support operations serving U.S. permanent bases at McMurdo Station and South Pole, and New Zealand's one base, (located just three kilometers from McMurdo Station in the Ross Sea region). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Staging Area

Language Translations for "staging area"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

samlingsområde, opstillingsområde, magasin (air chamber, card hopper, depot, feed hopper, hopper, magazine, man-made lake, reservoir, shed, stack, stockroom, storage, storage house, store, storehouse, storeroom, warehouse), klargøringslokale. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

bergruimte (box-room, storage room). (various references)

   

French

  

zone d'étape, réserve (stash, stock, stockpile, stockroom, storage room, store, storeroom). (various references)

   

German

  

Bereitstellungsraum (assembly area, marshalling-area). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βοηθητικός χώρος (virtual space). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

összpontosítási körlet (assembly area, concentration area, forming-up area). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ripostiglio (catchall, closet, lumber room, nook), magazzino (depot, magazine, repository, store, storehouse, warehouse). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

agingstay areaay

   

Portuguese

  

depósito (bailment, deposit, deposition, depository, depot, dreg, font, garner, lodging, outhouse, storehouse, tank), bastidores, armazém (boutique, depository, depot, garner, magazine, repository, shop, storage, store, storehouse, warehouse). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

плацдарм (beachhead, bridgehead, jumping-off ground, jumping-off-ground, jumping-off-place, place of arms, springboard). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

almacén (depot, grocers, grocer's shop, grocery, magazine, repository, shed, shop, store, storehouse, warehouse). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Staging Area

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-e-g-g-i-n-r-s-t"

-2 letters: restaging.

-3 letters: aerating, anergias, angarias, angaries, angriest, antisera, arginase, astringe, gangster, ganister, gantries, gastraea, gearings, granitas, granites, gratings, greasing, ingrates, naggiest, rangiest, ratanies, seatrain, snaggier, staggier, tanagers.

-4 letters: against, ageings, agnates, aigrets, anatase, anergia, anestri, angaria, antiars, antisag, antsier, argents, aristae, artisan, asteria, atresia, earings, easting, eatings, entasia, erasing, gagster, gainers, gaiters, gangers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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