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Answer for the clue "Putting on, as a show ", 7 letters:
staging

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Word definitions for staging in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Staging is the process of selecting, designing, adapting to, or modifying the performance space for a play or film . This includes the use or absence of stagecraft elements as well as the structure of the stage and its components.. Staging is also used ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Staging \Sta"ging\ (st[=a]"j[i^]ng), n. A structure of posts and boards for supporting workmen, etc., as in building. 2. The business of running stagecoaches; also, the act of journeying in stagecoaches.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the production of a drama on the stage [syn: theatrical production ] a system of scaffolds [syn: scaffolding ] travel by stagecoach getting rid of a stage of a multistage rocket

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context theater English) A performance of a play vb. (present participle of stage English)

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"temporary structure or support," early 14c., verbal noun from stage (v.). As an adjective to designate "stopping place or assembly point," 1945.

Usage examples of staging.

It takes technical skill to refine anthrax to the extremely tiny size required to get into the lungs, the staging ground from which it launches its often deadly attack on the body.

Hours into the game, we had to find homonyms in the menu of a restaurant, swim out to a dinghy in the middle of a lake, and go into a house party to retrieve a clue from kids who were staging a knife fight.

These would be staging points for the Molt refugees, the females and the prepubescent males driven from what should have been the inviolable core of the theme holdings.

Platonic love originates in this dialogue, and Kundera performs a parodic variation on it by staging a discussion of love in a hospital, place of bodily breakdown and repair, that decidedly emphasizes the physical even as it comically belies the validity of that very solid source of erotic power.

Its underside glowed with reactive paint, and I could see the metal cage on top where the operator would guide the AI deck through manipulating the dangling tentacles of crabhooks to pick up five racks at a time and transport them to the staging area.

Around a huge central Wellthe input staging area for Markovians who had taken part in the great experiment to repopulate the stars by becoming lesser creatures of their own design, living, reproducing, dying so the children could go out again to a universe their parents had abandonedwere 780 small areas.

Jack sat in the staging area alone, smoking a stim very leisurely, watching the red ash glow briefly in the darkness, before it deadened.

Knowing that Trame was staging a getaway, The Shadow was coming back to halt it.

The PT sailors told us that Biak was the major staging point for squadrons of boats deploying north to the Philippines and east to the Marianas.

I have no idea how one goes about staging a series of sex-change operations, but I have to admit, Johnny Bickford did have a figure.

They would have gotten footage of soldiers in space suits smeared with Ebola blood, engaged in the first major biohazard mission the world ever knew, and they would have gotten shots of biohazard buddies coming out into the staging area in pairs and being stripped of their suits by the supporting team.

Special Warfare Group One or Special Warfare Group Two, or been tasked with staging the SEAL regatta in Coronado or organizing the Navy Olympic bobsled team.

Bremen and Bremerhaven, and the necessary staging areas in that immediate vicinity, will be vested in the commander of the American Zone.

Staging Area Fagin was standing under a high arc light and watching his marshals suiting up Banish in a BDU, a battle dress uniform, black fatigues and a flak jacket and bullet-proof helmet.

Staging Area Fagin turned away from the Salvation Army truck, hot tray of food in hand.