stager

Other forms of stager

plural

stagers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about stager

What does stager mean?

stager means "someone who supervises the physical aspects in the production of a show and who is in charge of the stage when the show is being performed". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stager?

stager has 2 syllables: sta-ger. The stress falls on "sta". In IPA it is /ˈsteɪdʒɚ/.

What is another word for stager?

Close synonyms include stage manager, veteran, old-timer, oldtimer, old hand. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is stager a common word?

stager is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.