"stager" meaning in English

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        "An actor on the stage."
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          "text": "Here the principal stagers of saints' plays appear to have been the civic authorities, and guilds or confreries, and the popularity of this type of drama owed much to the cult of saints[…]",
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        "One who stages a theatrical performance."
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        "One who has long acted on the stage of life; a practitioner; a person of experience, or of skill derived from long experience."
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        "A horse used in drawing a stagecoach."
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          "stagecoach",
          "stagecoach"
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪdʒə(ɹ)"
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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