staging

noun12

1. •
   A performance of a play.

   • The 1984 premiere production (and, judging from a few reviews, the subsequent stagings) was much more solemn. — 1988
2. •
   The act or process of putting on an event.

   • The item 'event costs' is particularly difficult to break down since the staging of the competitions results in a variety of different expenditures. — 2004
3. •
   The scenery or organization of the movements of actors onstage or (more loosely) on a film set.

   • The movie's staging has the actors facing forward, as if playing before a live audience, in the style of fifties television situation comedies. — 2000
4. •
   The arrangement or layout of something in order to create an impression.

   • The representation and staging of reconstruction, of architectural design and of planning models, in particular, played a prominent role in the visual imagery and promotional discourse on both sides. — 2013
5. •
   The classification of a case of a disease, usually a cancer, into its anatomic or prognostic stage, which is a category of severity.
6. •
   The act of adapting a literary work into a play or (more loosely) into a film.

   • Akins’s prominence as a playwright would later become significant to Wharton in the staging of her novel The Old Maid. — 2007
7. •
   A structure of posts and boards for supporting workmen, etc., as in building.
8. •
   The organization of something in order to prepare for or facilitate working with it.

   • Kierkegaard wants his listeners to see Thorvaldsen's statue in the same way that he wants his readers to attend to his writing -- not as an end in itself, but as a staging of desire. — 2014
9. •
   An environment for testing that exactly resembles a production environment.
10. •
    The process of loading and unloading commercial vehicles.
11. •
    The business of running stagecoaches.
12. •
    The act of journeying in stagecoaches.