[steyj-man-ij] 
verb, -aged, -ag⋅ing.| 1. | to work as a stage manager for: When he wasn't acting, he stage-managed a repertory theater. |
| 2. | to arrange or stage in order to produce a theatrical or spectacular effect: The clients were most impressed with the way she stage-managed the whole presentation. |
| 3. | to arrange or direct unobtrusively or in secret: He stage-managed Mediterranean black-market operations from his secluded villa on the Riviera. |
| 4. | to work as a stage manager. |
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