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staging noun [ ˈsteɪdʒɪŋ ]

• the method of presenting a play or other dramatic performance.
• "the quality of staging and design"
• the activity or practice of styling and furnishing a property for sale in such a way as to enhance its attractiveness to potential buyers.
• "home staging has become a huge trend in the real estate industry"
• a stage or set of stages or temporary platforms arranged as a support for performers or between different levels of scaffolding.
• "pairs of ladders can be bridged with staging"
• diagnosis or classification of the particular stage reached by a progressive disease.
• "post-operative staging was performed"
• the arrangement of stages in a rocket or spacecraft.

stage verb

• present a performance of (a play or other show).
• "the show is being staged at the Grand Opera House in Belfast"
Similar: put on, put before the public, present, produce, mount, direct, perform, act, render, give,
• style or furnish (a property for sale) in such a way as to enhance its attractiveness to potential buyers.
• "once we've staged the house, we bring in our photographer"
• diagnose or classify (a disease or patient) as having reached a particular stage in the expected progression of the disease.
• "cancer of the prostate is staged by the way it feels on rectal exam"
Origin: Middle English (denoting a floor of a building, platform, or stopping place): shortening of Old French estage ‘dwelling’, based on Latin stare ‘to stand’. Current senses of the verb date from the early 17th century.


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