Usually means: Initial position secured for advancement.
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  1. beachhead: Merriam-Webster
  2. beachhead: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. beachhead: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. beachhead: Collins English Dictionary
  5. beachhead: Vocabulary.com
  6. Beachhead, beachhead: Wordnik
  7. beachhead: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. beachhead: Wiktionary
  9. beachhead: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. beachhead: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. beachhead: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. beachhead: Dictionary.com
  13. Beachhead (disambiguation), Beachhead (film), Beachhead: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. beachhead: Rhymezone
  15. beachhead: FreeDictionary.org
  16. beachhead: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. beachhead: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. beachhead: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. beachhead: Encyclopedia

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  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

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noun:  (military) An area of hostile territory (especially on a beach) that, when captured, serves for the continuous landing (or movement into position) of further troops and material
noun:  (by extension) A coastal landing place.
noun:  (by extension) An initial success that ensures the possibility of further advances in a project; a foothold.

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