"staging post" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "staging posts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "staging post (plural staging posts)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "90 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "[2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Nepmos",
          "text": "Shepard: Why are you out here in the first place?\nLieutenant Durand: There's been a lot of pirate activity in this cluster. We set up a chain of listening posts in the local systems in case they have a staging base.]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An intermediate stopping point."
      ],
      "id": "en-staging_post-en-noun-2TsT2wY1",
      "links": [
        [
          "intermediate",
          "intermediate"
        ],
        [
          "stopping",
          "stop#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "point",
          "point#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "staging area"
        },
        {
          "word": "staging point"
        },
        {
          "word": "staging base"
        },
        {
          "word": "stopover"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "intermediate stopping point",
          "word": "étape"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "intermediate stopping point",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Zwischenstopp"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A well-defined point in a process where one can rest or regroup."
      ],
      "id": "en-staging_post-en-noun-MW9mzUWO",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) A well-defined point in a process where one can rest or regroup."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "staging post"
}

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  "categories": [
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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "staging posts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "staging post (plural staging posts)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "[2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Nepmos",
          "text": "Shepard: Why are you out here in the first place?\nLieutenant Durand: There's been a lot of pirate activity in this cluster. We set up a chain of listening posts in the local systems in case they have a staging base.]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An intermediate stopping point."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "intermediate",
          "intermediate"
        ],
        [
          "stopping",
          "stop#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "point",
          "point#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "staging area"
        },
        {
          "word": "staging point"
        },
        {
          "word": "staging base"
        },
        {
          "word": "stopover"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A well-defined point in a process where one can rest or regroup."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) A well-defined point in a process where one can rest or regroup."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "intermediate stopping point",
      "word": "étape"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "intermediate stopping point",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Zwischenstopp"
    }
  ],
  "word": "staging post"
}