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unstageable en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + stageable.

Meanings

1. Impossible to perform on a stage.
   • “And there are these Russian works such as ‘Boris’ that some have called unstageable because they seem so massive in scale.” 2009 July 22, Patrick Healy, “Lincoln Center Festival Makes Way for the Czar”, in New York Times:
2. (US) Of a wound or ulcer, covered with slough or eschar, so that it cannot be assigned to any of the stages described in the National Pressure Ulcer Staging System.

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