staging

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staging

/ˈsteɪd͡ʒɪŋ/

Rhymes with -eɪdʒɪŋ

Where it comes from

By surface analysis, stage + -ing.

verb

gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of stage

noun stagings

countable, uncountable A performance of a play. The 1984 premiere production (and, judging from a few reviews, the subsequent stagings) was much more solemn.
countable, uncountable The act of adapting a literary work into a play or (more loosely) into a film. As a movie production it beats the book. Colin Campbell is given the credit of having staged the production yet to [sic] one familiar with the book and Beach’s style of description and love of adventure, can readily see that Beach had an important hand in the staging of his novel before the camera.
countable, uncountable The scenery or organization of the movements of actors onstage or (more loosely) on a film set. The movie's staging has the actors facing forward, as if playing before a live audience, in the style of fifties television situation comedies.
broadly, countable, uncountable The arrangement or layout of something in order to create an impression. Ranging along a continuum of degrees of "realism," each of these tourist sites embraces particular conceptions of animal subjectivity, notions of authenticity, and models of human-animal relationships. Each represents a different relationship to the concept of "situ." The higher the perceived realis
countable, uncountable The organization of something in order to prepare for or facilitate working with it. Staging Mobilities explores the dynamic process between 'being staged' (as, for example, when traffic lights command us to stop or when timetables organize your route and itineraries) and the "mobile staging" of interacting individuals (as, for example, when we negotiate a passage on the pavement, o
countable, uncountable A structure of posts and boards for supporting workmen, etc., as in building. We spent a lot of time up on the staging of the great furnaces, trying to pick up the tricks of the trade from the taciturn furnacemen who sat around placidly smoking, or chewing twist, and occasionally throwing in more pig iron to the molten white-hot metal.
countable, uncountable The act or process of putting on an event. The item 'event costs' is particularly difficult to break down since the staging of the competitions results in a variety of different expenditures.
countable, uncountable The business of running stagecoaches.
countable, uncountable The act of journeying in stagecoaches.
countable, uncountable The classification of a case of a disease, usually a cancer, into its anatomic or prognostic stage, which is a category of severity. By convention, clinical staging should be performed after complete excision of the primary melanoma (including microstaging) and after information about metastases to either regional or distant anatomic sites has been obtained after clinical, radiologic, and laboratory assessment.
uncountable An environment for testing that exactly resembles a production environment.
countable, uncountable The process of loading and unloading commercial vehicles. Lost productivity and earning potential: Commercial drivers are paid for their time on the road. If delays occur during staging, both drivers and companies can lose money. Drivers may wait in long lines at warehouses with little direction, resulting in wasted time and lost productivity.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: theatrical production, platform, scene, intermedia, essay, gathering, set-up, presentation, rendezvous, assembling, rally, collection, assembly, collation, rallying, sequence

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noun theater: performance of a play

Español	puesta en escena, escenificación
Português	encenação
Français	mise en scène, enscènement
Deutsch	Aufführung, Inszenierung, Regie
Italiano	messa in scena, messinscena, allestimento scenico, inscenamento
Русский	постано́вка postanóvka, инсцениро́вка insceniróvka

noun structure supporting workmen

Русский	организация organizacija

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@misc{staging_2026,
  title = {staging},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/staging},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}