But perhaps more important, the job can be a staging ground for political aspirations.

The area has since become a staging ground for protests by students and other groups.

This may have made it a particularly appropriate staging ground for women.

Louisville became a staging ground for Union troops heading south.

But in a way, everything matters a bit more here, because this is the staging ground for future Presidents.

"The second quarter is to me a staging ground," he said.

Could this system be a staging ground for larger military action?

They needed a staging ground from which to assault the tower.

Which makes the state an odd staging ground for an election that is often described as all about jobs and the economy.

The convention has long been used as a staging ground for recruiting by some of the country's major news organizations.