to "stage" (UNCLASSIFIED)

Tue Aug 24 22:00:29 UTC 2010

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I see this commonly on HGTV -- a house must be "staged" to sell properly
(usually this means getting the owner's junk out, and backfilling with
rented designer furniture).  The way the shows are formatted, it is a
success simply to stage the house, and whether it eventually sells or
not is never addressed.

http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/episode_archive/0,1000237,HGTV_32663_786,00.htm
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> Very familiar to me from reading but not, AFAICT, in OED or MW11. From
World
> War II:
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> 1945 _United States Army in World War II: The War in the Pacific_
(Dept. of
> the Army Historical Division) 174 [GB, not verified on paper]: The
> unit...had moved forward from New Zealand expecting to stop at Aitape
only
> for staging.
>
> It usually appears in the phrase "staging area" (OED 1945, no
definition),
> but the intrans. verb is also normal.
>
> JL
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