staging

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of stage

plural stagings

1. countableuncountableentertainmentA 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. countableuncountablebroadcastingThe act of adapting a literary work into a play or (more loosely) into a film.

   Akins’s prominence as a playwright would later become significant to Wharton in the staging of her novel The Old Maid.

   2007, Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors, page 49

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   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.

   2006, The West in Early Cinema, page 243

   Arguing against the staging of Demons in 1913, Gorky insists that the novel—even more so than The Brothers Karamazov, which the theater successfully staged two years earlier—is “a dark spot of malevolent misanthropy against the bright background of Russian literature.” [...] / Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko pushed back, arguing that in Demons Dostoevsky depicts the inner truth of Russian life and that, contrary to Gorky's argument, the staging of the novel would result in getting rid of “everything that is superficial (and forced)” in the novel, bringing out its inner essence.

   2022, Alexander Spektor, “Per Aspera Ad Astra”, in Literary Biographies in The Lives of Remarkable People Series in Russia, page 148

3. countableuncountablebroadcastingThe 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.

   2000, America Noir: Underground Writers and Filmmakers of the Postwar Era, page 165

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   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

4. broadlycountableuncountableThe arrangement or layout of something in order to create an impression.

   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

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   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

   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

5. countableuncountableThe organization of something in order to prepare for or facilitate working with it.

   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

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   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

6. countableuncountableA structure of posts and boards for supporting workmen, etc., as in building.

   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 28, T. S. Lascelles, “Diamond Jubilee of the Waterloo & City Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 518

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   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

7. countableuncountableThe 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

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   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

8. countableuncountableThe business of running stagecoaches.
9. countableuncountableThe act of journeying in stagecoaches.
10. countableuncountableThe 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

11. uncountablecomputingAn environment for testing that exactly resembles a production environment.
12. countableuncountablelogisticsThe 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