basing

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of base

plural basings

1. countableuncountableThe storage or housing of something within a base.

   In deep underground basing, missiles are buried in tunnels in mountainsides where they are able to ride out a nuclear attack. Following the attack the missiles dig themselves out of the tunnels to the surface and launch themselves.

   1989, Barbara Goss Levi, Mark Sakitt, The Future of Land Based-Strategic Missiles, page 174

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   Incidental revenues from sales and repairs and practically all ground expense were recorded as applicable to a particular station and then prorated to individual routes on the basis of arrivals, departures, and basings of equipment.

   1937, United States. Interstate Commerce Commission, Reports, page 20

1. Former name of Old Basing, Hampshire, England.

   Between Basing and Basingstoke there is a world of difference, and the boundary between the two worlds is the River Loddon.

   1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 52, presumably written before the name was changed