stage-managev.
transitive. To arrange with a view to stage effect. Also absol.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > stage [verb (transitive)] > stage-manage
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society > authority > control > [verb (transitive)] > manage or administer
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to bear (a person or thing) in (also an, a, on) handa1522
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to dispose of1573
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manage1609
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1879 Theatre Nov. 209 I have never seen them stage-manage a play.
1906 Daily Chron. 8 May 5/1 The meeting was well stage-managed, care being taken to fill the front part of the hall with ticket~holders.
1910 P. G. Wodehouse Psmith in City i. 3 My pater wants to jump in and stage manage.
1924 J. Buchan Three Hostages viii. 118 ‘Now wake.’ I was puzzled to know how to stage-manage that wakening.
1958 Washington Post 26 June 1/7 The United States..accused the Russian Government of stage-managing a demonstration against the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.
1964 ‘E. McBain’ Ax ii. 36 We did it [sc. a play] in highschool... I stage-managed.
1980 D. Lodge How Far can you Go? vi. 218 The whole prank, she was now convinced, was being stage-managed..to get them all naked together.
Derivatives
stage-managed adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > [adjective] > stage-managed
stage-managed1930
1930 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 May 359/3 In 1891 France and Russia had signalized their closer relations by the enthusiastic, though carefully stage-managed, reception given to the French fleet at Kronstadt.
1974 Listener 10 Oct. 461/3 These are not press conferences at all, but carefully stage-managed events, put on..for the audiences of BBC and ITV news.
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