staging area

1. 1.

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

   Broaderarea

   military

Questions about staging area

What does staging area mean?

staging area means "an area where troops and equipment in transit are assembled before a military operation".

Is staging area a common word?

staging area is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.