staging area
noun
: an area in which participants in a new especially military operation or mission are assembled and readied
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The site is now being used as a staging area for a public works project nearby, and the car dealership is home to a wholesaler for nail salons.
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Laura Kinsler, Orlando Sentinel, 17 Feb. 2025
Eventually, the brigade commanders decided to send Hertz and his three-man crew 12 miles south to Duke’s restaurant, which firefighters were using as a staging area.
—Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2025
Some held a protest today against the Environmental Protection Agency’s plans to use a Will Rogers State Beach parking lot as a staging area for storage and processing of hazardous materials from the Palisades Fire.
—Tom Tapp, Deadline, 10 Feb. 2025
Perhaps this staging area includes the steampunk-ish hell-basement filled with ominously crackling and humming electrical equipment that sucks Cooper through a portal (sans shoes, like a religious pilgrim entering a house of worship) and reincarnates him on the floor of Dougie’s secret other place.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2025
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Laura Kinsler, Orlando Sentinel, 17 Feb. 2025
Eventually, the brigade commanders decided to send Hertz and his three-man crew 12 miles south to Duke’s restaurant, which firefighters were using as a staging area.
—Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2025
Some held a protest today against the Environmental Protection Agency’s plans to use a Will Rogers State Beach parking lot as a staging area for storage and processing of hazardous materials from the Palisades Fire.
—Tom Tapp, Deadline, 10 Feb. 2025
Perhaps this staging area includes the steampunk-ish hell-basement filled with ominously crackling and humming electrical equipment that sucks Cooper through a portal (sans shoes, like a religious pilgrim entering a house of worship) and reincarnates him on the floor of Dougie’s secret other place.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2025
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“Staging area.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/staging%20area. Accessed 28 Feb. 2025.
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