staging
nounEtymology By surface analysis, stage + -ing.
11 senses
- 1A performance of a play
- 2The scenery or organization of the movements of actors onstage.
- 3The arrangement or layout of something in order to…
- 4The organization of something in order to prepare for or…
- 5A structure of posts and boards for supporting workmen…
- 6The act or process of putting on an event.
- 7The business of running stagecoaches.
- 8The act of journeying in stagecoaches.
- 9The classification of a case of a disease, usually a…
- 10An environment for testing that exactly resembles a…
- 11The process of loading and unloading commercial vehicles.
1
Entertainment, Lifestyle, Theater A performance of a play
- The 1984 premiere production (and, judging from a few reviews, the subsequent stagings) was much more solemn.1988 April 15, S.L. Wisenberg, “On Stage: cartoon characters in a drama of death”, in Chicago Reader:
2
The scenery or organization of the movements of actors onstage.
- This, he argues, was in turn especially strongly shaped by imported British theatre traditions, particularly the use of the proscenium arch stage which was radically different from the open staging of precolonial and early colonial India and produced and emphasis on frontality in theatre productions that is now deeply structured into Bollywood films, most notably in their smile-at-the-camera song-and-dance sequences.2005, Jen Harvie, Staging the UK, →ISBN, page 161:
- A variety of magical effects or tricks might have been possible on the Jacobean playhouse if Sabbattini's elaborate staging machinery was at hand at the at period.2014, Shokhan Rasool Ahmed, The Staging of Witchcraft and a “Spectacle of Strangeness”, →ISBN, page 14:
3
Broadly 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 realism quotient for each site, the more difficult it is to detect the staging of the natural.1999, Jane Desmond, Staging Tourism: Bodies on Display from Waikiki to Sea World, →ISBN:
- Staging often raises the value of a property by reducing the home's flaws, depersonalizing, de-cluttering, cleaning, and making it look its best with furniture placement, lighting, color, and much more.2011, Christine Rae, Jan Saunders Maresh, Home Staging For Dummies, →ISBN:
2 more examples
- The representation and staging of reconstruction, of architectural design and of planning models, in particular, played a prominent role in the visual imagery and promotional discourse on both sides.2013, Claire Colomb, Staging the New Berlin, →ISBN, page 1957:
- What about all the homicides staged as interrupted robberies, home invasions, burglaries, suicides, accidents, drowning, car accidents, household falls, and other types of incidents resulting in victims' deaths that were ruled suicide, accident, natural, or otherwise that were really murders? The red flags of staging were missed and victims were not served justice.2015, Laura Gail Pettler, Crime Scene Staging Dynamics in Homicide Cases, →ISBN, page 24:
4
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, or when we choose a particular mode of transport in accordance with our self-perception. The rationale for the book is therefore to address the following overall research question: What are the physical, social, technical and cultural conditions for the staging of contemporary urban mobilities?2013, Ole B. Jensen, Staging Mobilities, →ISBN, page 4:
- Kierkegaard wants his listeners to see Thorvaldsen's statue in the same way that he wants his readers to attend to his writing -- not as an end in itself, but as a staging of desire.2014, Carl S. Hughes, Kierkegaard and the Staging of Desire, →ISBN:
5
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.1945 January and February, 'A Former Pupil', “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:
- As was the case with the City & South London, powers were taken to sink shafts from temporary staging in the river, about 240 ft. from the south bank, from which to begin boring the tunnels, and the first pile for the staging was driven on June 18, 1894.1958 August 23, T. S. Lascelles, “Diamond Jubilee of the Waterloo & City Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 518:
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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.2004, Holger Preuss -, The Economics of Staging the Olympics, →ISBN:
- The staging of events which aimed to transform the city's public spaces and streets into spectacular urban landscapes for promotional purposes was also pioneered in the late 1920s.2013, Claire Colomb, Staging the New Berlin, →ISBN, page 1948:
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The business of running stagecoaches.
8
The act of journeying in stagecoaches.
9
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.2013, Frederick L, Greene, David L. Page, & Irvin D. Fleming, AJCC Cancer Staging Manual, →ISBN, page 210:
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences An environment for testing that exactly resembles a production environment.
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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.2025 August 27, “Beyond the Loading Dock: Optimizing Warehousing and Driver Safety with Altitude”, in Freight Waves, archived from the original on 09 Sep 2025:
- Derived terms
- downstaging, Hurley staging system, microstaging, restaging, staging area, staging post, upstaging