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old stager en · NOUN
Meanings
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(idiomatic) A veteran; an experienced person.
Thank goodness for 'old stagers' such as BBC veteran journalist Paul Clifton, who saw the truth behind the spin.
2023 August 9, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Disinterested and dishonest”, in RAIL, number 989, page 3:“There'll be no holding you,” continued the old stager, grimly.
1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 32:
Forms
Synonyms
old hand · old timer