"stage-manage" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "stage-manages",
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        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "stage-managing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stage-managed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stage-managed",
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        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "stage-manage (third-person singular simple present stage-manages, present participle stage-managing, simple past and past participle stage-managed)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "glosses": [
        "To manage or organise the operation of a theatrical stage; to act as stage manager."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "stage manager",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literally) To manage or organise the operation of a theatrical stage; to act as stage manager."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "literally"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Bad practices were rife at the factory, but the boss stage-managed the inspectors' visit so that they did not see anything amiss."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To carefully control or direct (an event, operation, etc.) from the background, especially in a calculating manner, so as to achieve a particular desired appearance or outcome."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively) To carefully control or direct (an event, operation, etc.) from the background, especially in a calculating manner, so as to achieve a particular desired appearance or outcome."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "stage-manage"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stage-manages",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stage-managing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stage-managed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stage-managed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To manage or organise the operation of a theatrical stage; to act as stage manager."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "stage manager",
          "stage manager"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literally) To manage or organise the operation of a theatrical stage; to act as stage manager."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "literally"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Bad practices were rife at the factory, but the boss stage-managed the inspectors' visit so that they did not see anything amiss."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To carefully control or direct (an event, operation, etc.) from the background, especially in a calculating manner, so as to achieve a particular desired appearance or outcome."
      ],
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        "(figuratively) To carefully control or direct (an event, operation, etc.) from the background, especially in a calculating manner, so as to achieve a particular desired appearance or outcome."
      ],
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        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "stage-manage"
}