at this stage meaning

• [American idiom]
  at the current point in some event; currently. (The first phrase is informal.)
  • We'll have to wait and see. There isn't much we can do at this stage of the game.
  • At this stage, we are better off not calling the doctor.
  
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  [American slang]
  Fig. at the current point in some event or situation; currently.
    We'll have to wait and see. There isn't much we can do at this stage of the game.
    At this stage, we are better off not calling the doctor.

• at this stage nothing would stop gossip.
• at this stage they sat straight and alert.
• at this stage the star radiates only in the infrared.
• at this stage the plan was absolutely secret.
• at this stage there is a latent image which is not yet visible.
• at this stage it is impossible to know whether our plan will succeed.
• Sections of the lungs at this stage would show larvae in the bronchioles.
• Apart from grazing, trampling also has a deterrent effect upon weeds at this stage.
• The reason for the british bias towards airships at this stage is not hard to deduce.
• I fear that if we drive out the king and badoglio at this stage we shall only have complicated the task of the armies.

• "at this stage" meaning in Chinese: 现阶段
• "at this stage" meaning in Japanese: 目下｛もっか｝のところ、現在｛げんざい｝のところAt this stage, all we can do is wa...
• "at this stage" meaning in Russian: на этом этапе