staging

/ˈsteɪdʒɪŋ/

/ˈsteɪdʒɪŋ/

Other forms: stagings

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.

Definitions of staging

1. noun

   a temporary framework used in construction to support workers and materials
   synonyms: scaffolding

   type of:

   system

   instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity
2. noun

   the production of a drama on the stage
   synonyms: theatrical production

   types:

   coup de theatre

   a highly successful theatrical production

   summer stock

   theatrical productions performed by a stock company during the summer

   type of:

   production

   a presentation for the stage or screen or radio or television
3. noun

   getting rid of a stage of a multistage rocket
   type of:

   discard, throwing away

   getting rid something that is regarded as useless or undesirable
4. noun

   travel by stagecoach
   type of:

   travel, traveling, travelling

   the act of going from one place to another