to "stage"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Oops. The OED does define "staging area."

JL

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Very familiar to me from reading but not, AFAICT, in OED or MW11. From
> World
> War II:
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> 1945 _United States Army in World War II: The War in the Pacific_ (Dept. of
> the Army Historical Division) 174 [GB, not verified on paper]: The
> unit...had moved forward from New Zealand expecting to stop at Aitape only
> for staging.
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> It usually appears in the phrase "staging area" (OED 1945, no definition),
> but the intrans. verb is also normal.
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> JL
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