WordNet
transit zone
n. a six million square mile area that includes the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico and the eastern Pacific Ocean; includes the principal routes used by drug smugglers
Usage examples of "transit zone".
Over there is the transit zone and this is the depth where Arkon's robotships have thrown a blockading line.
Deep Space Nine, newly renamed, by now surely spiffed up according to Kai Winn inspection standards, would be only a way-station for him and his team--his family of the past four years--a transit zone to await diaspora to their new commands.