The Russians had promised to withdraw in threestages. Onestage had been completed, and the railway between Shan-hai-kwan and Ying-k’ou (Newchang) had been returned, but all this meant was that the Russians had moved their troops from Liao-hsi, a region where they had few interests, to their major base at Liaotung.
Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, and so we enteredstage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.
(by extension) One of the portions of a device (such as arocket orthermonuclear weapon) which are used or activated in a particular order, one after another.
The firststage of the launcher burned out and separated after successfully boosting the payload onto a suborbital trajectory, but the engine of the upperstage failed to ignite to place the satellite into orbit.
(theater) Aplatform; a surface, generallyelevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given.
1711 May, [Alexander Pope],An Essay on Criticism, London:[…] W[illiam] Lewis[…]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor[…], T[homas] Osborn[e][…], and J[ohn] Graves[…],→OCLC:
Knights, squires, and steeds must enter on thestage.
(dated) A place of rest on a regularly travelled road; astation,way station; a place appointed for arelay of horses.
(dated) A degree of advancement in a journey; one of several portions into which a road or course is marked off; the distance between two places of rest on a road.
TheMount Vernon, favoured by a goodstage of water, soon cleared the narrow Monongahela channel, passed the confluence, and headed down under full steam, […].
1962 December, “Dr. Beeching previews the plan for British Railways”, inModern Railways, page377:
At present, however, in spite of vigorous efforts to increase through train working, thestage-by-stage movement of individual wagons remains the normal method of freight movement.
How do you get past the flying creatures in the thirdstage?
2007 December, Chris Slate, “Get Ready to Smash”, inNintendo Power, volume222,page49:
Additionally, popular supporting characters make cameos on certainstages, such as in Smashville, where you'll find Tom Nook and other familiar faces from Animal Crossing.
A place where anything is publicly exhibited, or a remarkable affair occurs; thescene.
Rooney's United team-mate Chris Smalling was given his debut at right-back and was able to adjust to the internationalstage in relatively relaxed fashion as Bulgaria barely posed a threat of any consequence.
2015, Gary Andres, Paul Hernnson,Lobbying Reconsidered: Politics Under the Influence, page149:
Paid media is the admission ticket to enter the big-time Washingtonstage.
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A protest will bestaged in the public square on Monday.
1955 February, T. B. Sands, “The Didcot, Newbury & Southampton Railway—1”, inRailway Magazine, page79:
But capital was proving difficult to raise; rumours were in the air that the G.W.R. and L.S.W.R. were about to patch up their quarrel, and the people of Southampton, who twelve months earlier hadstaged a torch-light procession to celebrate the passing of the D.N.S.R. Act, were increasingly loath to part with their cash.
(transitive) To place in position to prepare for use.
Westaged the cars to be ready for the start, then waited for the starter to drop the flag.
tostage data to be written at a later time
(transitive,medicine) To determine what stage (a disease, etc.) has progressed to
2010, Howard M. Fillit, Kenneth Rockwood, Kenneth Woodhouse,Brocklehurst's Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, page940:
One method of documenting a wound is as follows: (1)stage the ulcer, time present, setting where occurred; (2) describe the location anatomically; (3) measure ulcer in centimeters (length × width × base);[…]
2023 June 23, Tejal Rao, “‘The Bear’ Finds Optimism in the Dysfunctional World of Hospitality”, inThe New York Times[3]:
It doesn’t matter that recent reporting on thestage economy of Copenhagen[…] has revealed a pattern of abuse and dangerous working conditions for unpaid interns. In “The Bear,” thestage is a dream: Marcus’s tasks are simply to learn from a skilled but kind and patient mentor, to get out and about and feel inspired, and to come up with some new dishes of his own.
2023,C Pam Zhang,Land of Milk and Honey, Hutchinson Heinemann, page36:
I’ve been chosen tostage at Coloniál, the Michelin-starred restaurant that I will one day lie about running.Stage is restaurant-speak forfree labor, but I’m unconcerned.
