staging
Americannoun
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the act, process, or manner of presenting a play on the stage.
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a temporary platform or structure of posts and boards for support, as in building; scaffolding.
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Rocketry. the in-flight separation of a rocket stage from the remaining stages of a multistage missile or launch vehicle.
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the business of running stagecoaches.
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the act of traveling by stages or by stagecoach.
noun
Etymology
Origin of staging
Explanation
Staging is a set of raised platforms used in a theatrical production. Construction workers also use staging to support them as they repair the outside of a building. In plays and film the word staging can be used for the scaffolding that physically supports scenery and actors — and also for the process of presenting a work theatrically. This kind of staging involves modifying and designing a space, preparing it for a play. Preparing a house in order to sell it is also a kind of staging. If you're an astronomer, you probably use this noun to mean employing many engines, in separate stages, to launch a rocket.
Vocabulary lists containing staging
Reading: Literature - Drama - Introductory
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Theater - Introductory
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Reading: Literature - Drama - Middle School
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Example Sentences
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Bulgarian singer Dara has the night's best staging on Bangaranga - a nonsensical typhoon of tropical pop, based around a word from Jamaican patois that means "a joyful kind of disorder".
From BBC • May 15, 2026
Also on the schedule: the re-creation of two of Ono’s groundbreaking performance art works, including 1964’s iconic “Cut Piece,” which Ono originally performed in Kyoto and Tokyo, before staging its American debut at Carnegie Hall.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026
If you watched his performance at Thursday's semi-final, you'll know the staging makes a virtue of his bees-in-a-matchbox energy.
From BBC • May 14, 2026
Under the leadership of CEO Lip-Bu Tan, Intel is staging an astonishing turnaround.
From MarketWatch • May 8, 2026
They are symptoms of absent-mindedness in a writer who has forgotten that he should be staging an event for the reader.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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