stage-manage meaning
Verb: stage-manage
- Artificially arrange so as to have a particular effect or give a particular impression
"the rescue of US POW Jessica Lynch was stage-managed by the US military" - Be a stage manager
Derived forms: stage-manages, stage-managing, stage-managed
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