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staged

adjectiveverbattested in dialogue

Of an event, intentionally performed while being falsely contrived to appear authentic or coincidental.

adjective

  1. 1

    Of an event, intentionally performed while being falsely contrived to appear authentic or coincidental.

    The car accident was actually staged so he could collect the insurance money.

  2. 2

    Intended for the stage as in a theater.

    The staged performance was good, but I liked the book better.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of stagesimple past and past participle of stage

Forms

comparative
more staged
superlative
most staged
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).