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Definition: Staging Area |
Staging AreaNoun1. 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. |
| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
Crosswords: Staging Area |
| English words defined with "staging area": Gateway to the West ♦ Saint Louis, St. Louis. (references) |
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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. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| 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 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) плацдарм (beachhead, bridgehead, jumping-off ground, jumping-off-ground, jumping-off-place, place of arms, springboard). (various references) almacén (depot, grocers, grocer's shop, grocery, magazine, repository, shed, shop, store, storehouse, warehouse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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. | |
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