Definition of "stationing" []

• Present participle of station. (verb)
• The putting in a place to perform military duty (noun)

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• "The Marines responded by again stationing a full battalion in the area, Battalion 3/25, a reserve unit from Ohio."
• "No one is arguing for the long - term stationing of forces, so why don't we talk now about how long we expect them to be there."
• "The other day one of our officers, in stationing his pickets, said to one of them, 'Well, sit down on the end of that log there for the present, until you get the lay of the land a little, and see what is going on,' and then went on stationing his detail."