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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
stage /steɪdʒ/USA pronunciation   n., v., staged, stag•ing. 
n. [countable]
  1. a step or degree in a process, development, or series:in the early stages of his career.
  2. a raised platform or floor, as for speakers.
  3. Show Businessthe platform on which the actors perform in a theater.
  4. Show Business the stage, [usually singular] the acting profession:All his life he wanted to be part of the stage.See on stage below.
  5. Transporta stagecoach.

v. [+ object]
  1. Show Businessto represent, produce, or exhibit on or as if on a stage:to stage a play.
  2. to plan, organize, or carry out, esp. for effect:Workers staged a one-day strike.
Idioms
  1. Idioms by easy stages, gradually;
    without hurry.
  2. Idioms, Show Business on stage, [uncountable]
    • performing, esp. as an actor:He was on stage for every show.
    • in the area of the stage seen by the audience:The main figure in the play never appears on stage.


WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
stage (stāj),USA pronunciation  n., v., staged, stag•ing. 

    n. 
    1. a single step or degree in a process;
      a particular phase, period, position, etc., in a process, development, or series.
    2. a raised platform or floor, as for speakers, performers, etc.
    3. Show Business[Theat.]
      • the platform on which the actors perform in a theater.
      • this platform with all the parts of the theater and all the apparatus back of the proscenium.
    4. Show Business the stage, the theater, esp. acting, as a profession:He plans to make the stage his career.
    5. Cinema, Show Business[Motion Pictures.]See sound stage. 
    6. the scene of any action.
    7. Transporta stagecoach.
    8. a place of rest on a journey;
      a regular stopping place of a stagecoach or the like, for the change of horses, mules, etc.
    9. the distance between two places of rest on a journey;
      each of the portions of a journey.
    10. a portion or period of a course of action, of life, etc.:the adolescent stage of human development.
    11. [Entomol.]
      • Insectsany one of the major time periods in the development of an insect, as the embryonic, larval, pupal, and imaginal stages.
      • InsectsAlso called stadium. any one of the periods of larval growth between molts.
    12. Sociology[Econ., Sociol.]a major phase of the economic or sociological life of human beings or society:the patriarchal stage.
    13. Geologya division of stratified rocks corresponding to a single geologic age.
    14. Opticsthe small platform of a microscope on which the object to be examined is placed. See illus. under microscope. 
    15. Radio and Televisionan element in a complex mechanism, as a tube and its accessory structures in a multiple amplifier.
    16. Rocketrya section of a rocket containing a rocket engine or cluster of rocket engines, usually separable from other such sections when its propellant is exhausted.
    17. by easy stages, working, traveling, etc., slowly, with frequent pauses;
      unhurriedly, with many stops;
      gradually.
    18. Show Business go on the stage, to become an actor, esp. in the theater:She knew from the age of 12 that she would go on the stage.
    19. hold the stage:
      • Show Businessto continue to be produced, as a play or other theatrical production.
      • to be the center of attention.
    20. Show Business on stage, performing, esp. as an actor.

    v.t. 
    1. Show Businessto represent, produce, or exhibit on or as if on a stage:The drama class staged a play during Christmas vacation.
    2. Show Businessto furnish with a stage, staging, stage set, etc.
    3. Show Businessto write, direct, or produce (a play) with the action taking place as if in a specified locale or time:He staged the fantasy on Mars in the year 2500.
    4. to plan, organize, or carry out (an activity), esp. for dramatic or public effect:Workers staged a one-day strike.
    5. to classify the natural progression of (a disease, esp. cancer).

    v.i. 
    1. Show Businessto be suitable for presentation or performance on the stage:The script didn't stage well.
    2. to travel by stagecoach.
    • Vulgar Latin *staticum standing place, equivalent. to stat(us) status + -icum, neuter of -icus -ic
    • Old French estage (French étage)
    • Middle English (noun, nominal) 1250–1300
    stagea•ble, adj. 
    stage′a•bili•ty, stagea•ble•ness, n. 
    stagea•bly, adv. 
      • 6.See corresponding entry in Unabridged spot, setting, locale.

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