stage-manageverb [ T ]
uk/ˈsteɪdʒˌmæn.ɪdʒ/us/ˈsteɪdʒˌmæn.ɪdʒ/to arrange and control an event carefully in order to achieve the result you want:
Many people have become cynical about the stage-managed debates between politicians which regularly appear on television.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Managing and organizing
- act
- administer
- administration
- bureaucracy
- bureaucratic
- campaign
- have sth in hand idiom
- head sth up
- in hand idiom
- kaizen
- manage
- management
- restructure
- run the show idiom
- running
- shakedown
- square
- square sth/sb away
- stage
- stewardship
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