beachhead

noun

beach·​head ˈbēch-ˌhed 

1

: an area on a hostile shore occupied to secure further landing of troops and supplies

2

: foothold

Examples of beachhead in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Twelve years later Uber arrived, and San Francisco was the first beachhead for its mass invasion of thousands of new drivers. —Wired Staff, WIRED, 20 Nov. 2024

If California was a beachhead for Japanese auto imports in the Sixties and Seventies, the Northeast was the landing point for European cars in the Fifties and Sixties. —Raphael Orlove, Robb Report, 27 Nov. 2024

The need to stave off a potential Moscow beachhead on the Adriatic is one reason that Slovenia and Croatia vigorously advocate for Montenegro’s admission to NATO. —Edward P. Joseph, Foreign Affairs, 26 June 2014

Meng was on her way to Mexico to secure a new beachhead for the next generation of wireless infrastructure, known as 5G. The transformation to a 5G network promised inconceivably fast wireless speeds but required a new and denser network of cellular base stations. —Garrett M. Graff, WIRED, 16 Jan. 2020

Word History

First Known Use

1920, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Kids Definition

beachhead

noun

beach·​head ˈbēch-ˌhed 

: an area on an enemy shore held by an advance force of an invading army to protect the later landing of troops or supplies