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old stager

American  

noun

  1. stager.


old stager British  

noun

  1. a person with experience; old hand

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of old stager

First recorded in 1705–15

Example Sentences

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But could old stager Rhys Priestland, who has been in fine touch for Cardiff, play his way into Pivac's plans?

From BBC • Nov. 4, 2022

Opposite Bruce, the old stager and experienced hand, will be Gary Rowett, one of the division’s brightest young managers.

From The Guardian • Oct. 30, 2016

Far from the solitary splendour of the ancient old stager, it turns out that trees communicate with one another through their roots.

From Nature • Sep. 13, 2016

The old stager Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe, Argentina's talisman in the O'Connell or Sergio Parisse mould, remains from that squad.

From BBC • Oct. 17, 2015

My uncle had been an old stager at Saratoga—a beau of the "purest water," as he laughingly described himself—and he was enabled to explain all that it was necessary for me to know.

From The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin, Volume 1. Being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore