staging

Pluralstagings

1. 1
   nouncountable or uncountable

   The act or process of organizing and putting on an event.

   The staging of the awards ceremony involved dozens of crew members.

   Poor staging of the conference left speakers waiting with no microphones.

   Similarorganization, production, running, planning

2. 2
   nouncountable or uncountable

   The arrangement or layout of something so as to create a particular impression.

   The staging of the photo made the small backyard seem like an estate.

   Investigators suspected the staging of the scene had been done to mislead them.

   Similararrangement, setup, composition, presentation

   Note

   Two trades have made this extension their own. Real estate speaks of home staging: decluttering, lighting and placing furniture so a house looks its best and sells for more. Forensic writing speaks of crime scene staging, where a homicide is dressed up as a burglary, suicide or accident. The first is a service people hire; the second is a deception investigators hunt for. Context tells you which impression is being manufactured.

3. 3
   nouncountable or uncountable

   The scenery and the planned movements of actors on a stage.

   The director's staging kept the actors constantly in motion across the platform.

   Minimalist staging left the bare stage to the audience's imagination.

   Similarblocking, choreography, direction

   Note

   Here the word means the craft rather than the event: how the playing space is built and how actors move through it. Theater historians contrast open staging with the proscenium arch, and they write of staging machinery behind the magical effects of the Jacobean playhouse. So it keeps company with words for space, architecture and equipment rather than with titles and dates.

4. 4
   nouncountable or uncountable

   A presented performance or production of a play.

   This staging of Hamlet set the action in a modern boardroom.

   The company's staging drew sold-out crowds every evening.

   Similarproduction, performance, presentation

   Note

   A theater word that counts: one play can have many stagings, each a separate production, from the premiere through every revival after it. That plural is the quickest way to tell it from the design of scenery and movement, which usually behaves as a mass noun (the staging felt static). It pairs naturally with of and a title: a staging of Hamlet, a new staging of an old comedy.

5. 5
   nouncountable or uncountable

   The organization of something to prepare it for use or make it easier to work with.

   Careful staging of the surgical instruments saved precious minutes during the operation.

   The staging of the data sped up every report the team had to run.

   Similarpreparation, arrangement, organization, setup

6. 6
   nouncountable or uncountable

   A structure of posts and boards that supports workers, as used in building.

   The crew erected staging around the chimney before starting repairs.

   Wind shook the staging, so the masons came down for the day.

   Similarscaffolding, scaffold

7. 7
   nouncountable or uncountable

   The classification of a disease, usually a cancer, into a stage that describes its severity and how far it has spread.

   Accurate staging of the tumor determined which therapy the patient received.

   The staging placed the disease at an early, treatable level.

   Note

   Oncology uses the word to assign a cancer to a severity category. The AJCC Cancer Staging Manual (2013) separates clinical staging, which is done after the primary tumor is fully excised and the spread to other sites has been checked, from microstaging, the finer assessment of a melanoma itself. It names a procedure, so it is performed or done, and accurate staging is what guides the choice of treatment.

8. 8
   noununcountable

   A testing environment built to exactly mirror the live production system.

   The team deployed to staging to catch errors before the live release.

   Staging caught a database issue that local testing had missed.

   Oppositeproduction

   Note

   Software teams treat it almost like a place name. It usually goes without an article (deploy to staging, a bug found on staging), just as production does, and the two are constantly paired: changes move from local testing to staging to production. Because it is uncountable, a team with several of these says staging environments rather than stagings.

9. 9
   nouncountable or uncountable

   The process of loading goods onto and off of commercial vehicles.

   Efficient staging of the trucks kept the warehouse on schedule.

   Delays in staging backed up traffic at the loading bay.

   Similarloading

   Note

   A freight-yard word whose stakes are measured in waiting time. Drivers are paid for hours on the road, so every hour spent idling in a warehouse line during staging costs both driver and company. It most often appears as a mass noun after during or in (delays during staging), and it is a narrow, practical cousin of preparing things for work.

10. 10
    verb

    Present participle and gerund of stage.

    The company is staging a new production this spring.

    Activists are staging a walkout to demand change.

    Note

    Two grammatical jobs share one spelling. As a participle it follows be (they are staging a walkout); as a gerund it names the activity itself (staging a play takes months). The verb behind it reaches well beyond the theater: doctors stage a disease, and rocket engineers use staging for dropping a spent stage and lighting the one above. Built simply from stage plus -ing, it also supplies every noun on this page.

11. 11
    nouncountable or uncountable

    The trade of operating stagecoach lines for passengers and mail.

    Staging connected the remote settlements long before the railroad arrived.

    The company's staging carried both passengers and the weekly post.

12. 12
    nouncountable or uncountable

    The act of traveling by stagecoach.

    Staging across the mountains tested even the hardiest travelers.

    Days of staging left the passengers covered in road dust.

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