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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stagehand
noun
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▪ A coda to a Wagner song finds Cynthia Loemij winding down as the set is dismantled by stagehands.
▪ A cordon of stagehands appeared from nowhere and surrounded me as I stepped out of the car.
▪ Mulcahey flew past the desk and the startled clerks to the room where the stagehands had said he would find Jack Diamond.
▪ Not one Girl was dropped and due to the anti-social breath of the stagehands, not one romance developed.
▪ Regan, the chief stagehand, said in a harsh whisper.
▪ Regan, the chief stagehand, walked by Eliza.
▪ The stagehand ran back to a trunk by the wall and took out a doll wrapped in a plaid blanket.
▪ The stagehands pulled on their ropes, and the curtain rolled up smoothly.
Wiktionary
stagehand

n. A person who works behind the scenes at a theatre or in other theatrical media.

WordNet
stagehand

n. an employee of a theater who performs work involved in putting on a theatrical production [syn: stage technician]

Wikipedia
Stagehand

A stagehand is a person who works backstage or behind the scenes in theatres, film, television, or location performance. Their work include setting up the scenery, lights, sound, props, rigging, and special effects for a production.

Stagehand (horse)

Stagehand (foaled 1935 in Kentucky) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who is the only horse to ever win the Santa Anita Handicap as a three-year-old.

Usage examples of "stagehand".

The Paris police co-operated and placed three of its agents as a waiter, a stagehand, and the coatroom biddy.

Along with the company, the tireman and his assistants, the prompter, and the stagehands, a couple of dozen friends and wives and lovers milled about where the groundlings would throng in a few hours.

A writer does not need a crew of actors, directors, musicians, stagehands, cameramen or props, sets, curtains, lights.

The crowd fanned out down walks and winding streets and disappeared into parked cars and pubs. The lights around the theatre went out, cutting bright coins from the river, as if a stagehand had thrown a switch in the water.

He was followed by musicians, carpenters, wig makers, shampooers, tailors, dressers, stagehands, and almost a hundred porters.

She marched down the narrow hallway, dodging stagehands and finding her way past the dressing rooms, past the rest rooms and, finally, escaping out the gray metal door marked Exit.

Kyle and Jason working as volunteer stagehands for some group called the Strolling Players.

As it was, denunciations, mostly from stagehands, piled up on my desk.

Benavides, Duarte and Lopez were currently working at Variety International Pictures, half the time as stagehands, half the time playing Indians in cheapy cowboy pictures.

A stagehand came by with a couple of bottled waters, and passed them to Ortega and to me.

It's the place where gossip, slander, rumor, and character assassination are given free rein, where the biggest stars can mix with the lowliest stagehands and the slimiest reporters and not have to watch their tongues.

He tried to convey his concern to the rest of the Venture's crew as they waited for the stagehands to set things up for a final dress rehearsal.

After she'd had her talk with the producer at the theater she'd approached the stagehand Schmidt had dressed down about dropping the load of lumber.