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stage
[steyj] 
,noun, verb, staged, stag⋅ing.
–noun
–verb (used with object)
–verb (used without object)
—Idioms
| 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. | Theater.
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| 4. | the stage, the theater, esp. acting, as a profession: He plans to make the stage his career. |
| 5. | Movies. sound stage. |
| 6. | the scene of any action. |
| 7. | a 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. | Entomology.
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| 12. | Economics, Sociology. a major phase of the economic or sociological life of human beings or society: the patriarchal stage. |
| 13. | Geology. a division of stratified rocks corresponding to a single geologic age. |
| 14. | the small platform of a microscope on which the object to be examined is placed. |
| 15. | Radio. an element in a complex mechanism, as a tube and its accessory structures in a multiple amplifier. |
| 16. | Rocketry. a 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. | to represent, produce, or exhibit on or as if on a stage: The drama class staged a play during Christmas vacation. |
| 18. | to furnish with a stage, staging, stage set, etc. |
| 19. | to 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. |
| 20. | to plan, organize, or carry out (an activity), esp. for dramatic or public effect: Workers staged a one-day strike. |
| 21. | to classify the natural progression of (a disease, esp. cancer). |
| 22. | to be suitable for presentation or performance on the stage: The script didn't stage well. |
| 23. | to travel by stagecoach. |
| 24. | by easy stages, working, traveling, etc., slowly, with frequent pauses; unhurriedly, with many stops; gradually. |
| 25. | 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. |
| 26. | hold the stage,
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| 27. | on stage, performing, esp. as an actor. |
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