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A staging area (otherwise staging base, staging facility, staging ground, staging point, or staging post) is a location in which organisms, people, vehicles, equipment, or material are assembled before use. It may refer to:

  • In , a designated area where equipment can be staged prior to the arrival or departure of an aircraft.
  • In , a designated area in which vehicles, supplies, and construction equipment are positioned for access and use to a construction site.
  • In , the resting and feeding places of .
  • In , places designated for setting up and other elaborate presentations.
  • In , the use of furniture to stage an area of one's home to prepare it for sale.
  • In , designated places for placed near locations of high media interest.
  • In space exploration, an area where final assembly is done on before they are moved out to their .
  • In , an intermediate area between the sources of information and the (DW) or (DM). It is usually of temporary nature, and its contents can be erased after the DW/DM has been loaded successfully (see data staging).
  • In software development, an environment for testing that exactly resembles a production environment. It seeks to mirror an actual production environment as closely as possible and may connect to other production services and data, such as .

In usage, a staging area is a place where troops or equipment in transit are assembled or processed. The US Department of Defense uses these definitions:

Often and historically, this military staging area has been termed a point d'appui, which is often on high ground and sometimes coincident with a significant prehistoric monument, as in the case of Catto Long Barrow in , . Unlike normal bases, the facilities of a staging area are temporary, mainly because for a certain time it will hold much more troops and materiel than would be reasonable in peacetime.

Militaries use staging areas to deploy , aircraft, and and ahead of an attack or . In former times, this used to be generally the border area of one's own country, but in recent wars (, , ), it may also be the border area of another unrelated country granting access.


See also
  • List of aviation, avionics, aerospace and aeronautical abbreviations
  • Glossary of military abbreviations
  • List of government and military acronyms
  • List of established military terms
  • Military logistics

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