How to pronounce “stage-manage”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (literally) To manage or organise the operation of a theatrical stage; to act as stage manager.
• (figuratively) To carefully control or direct (an event, operation, etc.) from the background, especially in a calculating manner, so as to achieve a particular desired appearance or outcome.

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Similar Sounds

stage manager, stagehand, stationing, stage hand, stagione, stage one, stevenage, steaminess, stegman, stemen