stage
/steɪd͡ʒ/ verb C2- To produce on a stage, to perform a play. · The local theater group will stage "Pride and Prejudice".
- To arrange in a manner intended to deceive. · The salesman's demonstration of the new cleanser was staged to make it appear highly effective.
- To furnish and decorate (a property) to make it more appealing to potential buyers. · to stage a house or flat
- To orchestrate; to carry out. · The workers staged a strike.· A protest will be staged in the public square on Monday.
- To place in position to prepare for use. · We staged the cars to be ready for the start, then waited for the starter to drop the flag.· to stage data to be written at a later time
- To determine what stage (a disease, etc.) has progressed to.
- To jettison a spent stage of a multistage rocket or other launch vehicle and light the engine(s) of the stage above it. · In Kerbal Space Program, you stage away used-up parts of your rocket by hitting the spacebar.
- To work an internship, usually as a chef or waiter.
He/she/it stages · Past staged · Past participle staged · -ing form staging
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- Past participle
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However, I will only say at the present stage that your problem does not appear to me to be insoluble, and that you may expect to find us at Victoria at two o'clock."
The curtain rose on the ballet, which was one of those excellent specimens of the Italian school, admirably arranged and put on the stage by Henri, who has established for himself a great reputation throughout Italy for his taste and skill in the choreographic art—one of those masterly productions of grace, method, and elegance in which the whole corps de ballet, from the principal dancers to the humblest supernumerary, are all engaged on the stage at the same time; and a hundred and fifty persons may be seen exhibiting the same attitude, or elevating the same arm or leg with a simultaneous movement, that would lead you to suppose that but one mind, one act of volition, influenced the moving mass.
Delia was to become familiar and then contemptuous with Music, so that when she saw the orchestra seats and boxes unsold she could have sore throat and lobster in a private dining-room and refuse to go on the stage.
Old Baron Dowson said the night before he was hanged that in my case what the law had gained the stage had lost.
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