| HOSTAGE | • hostage n. A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or similar… • hostage n. A person seized in order to compel another party to act (or refrain from acting) in a certain way, because… • hostage n. Something that constrains one’s actions because it is at risk. |
| LASTAGE | • lastage n. (Obsolete) A duty exacted, in some fairs or markets, for the right to carry things where one will. • lastage n. (Obsolete) A tax on wares sold by the last. • lastage n. (Obsolete) The lading of a ship; ballast. |
| ONSTAGE | • onstage adj. On the part of a stage that is visible to the audience. • onstage adv. Taking place on the part of a stage that is visible to the audience. • on-stage adj. Alternative form of onstage. |
| POSTAGE | • postage n. The charge for posting an item. • postage n. The postage stamp, or similar token, affixed to an item of post as evidence of payment. • POSTAGE n. the charge for mailing an item. |
| RESTAGE | • restage v. (Theater, transitive) To stage (a production) again; to bring (a production) to the stage again. • restage v. (Medicine, oncology, surgery; transitive) To stage (a disease, especially a cancer) again; to revise… • RESTAGE v. to put on the same play again. |
| STAGERS | • stagers n. Plural of stager. • Stagers prop.n. Plural of Stager. • STAGER n. an experienced person. |
| STAGERY | • stagery n. (Obsolete) Exhibition on the stage. • STAGERY n. theatrical contrivances. |
| STAGGED | • stagged v. Simple past tense and past participle of stag. • STAG v. to attend a function without a female companion. |
| STAGGER | • stagger n. An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion. • stagger n. (Veterinary medicine) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling. • stagger n. Bewilderment; perplexity. |
| STAGGIE | • STAGGIE n. (Scots) a colt, also STAIG. |
| STAGIER | • stagier adj. Comparative form of stagy: more stagy. • STAGY adj. having a theatrical quality, also STAGEY. |
| STAGILY | • stagily adv. In a stagy way. • STAGY adv. having a theatrical quality, also STAGEY. |
| STAGING | • staging v. Present participle of stage. • staging n. (Theater) A performance of a play. • staging n. The scenery and/or organization of actors’ movements on stage. |
| UPSTAGE | • upstage n. (Theater) The part of a stage that is farthest from the audience or camera. • upstage adv. Toward or at the rear of a theatrical stage. • upstage adv. Away from the audience or camera. |
| WASTAGE | • wastage n. (Uncountable) The amount or proportion of something that is wasted or lost by deterioration or other natural process. • wastage n. (Uncountable) The periodical turnover of personnel in an organisation by death, retirement or resignation… • wastage n. (Countable) Anything lost by wear or waste. |