staging

noun

1. A performance of a play.
2. The act of adapting a literary work into a play or (more loosely) into a film.
3. The scenery or organization of the movements of actors onstage or (more loosely) on a film set.
4. The arrangement or layout of something in order to create an impression.
5. The organization of something in order to prepare for or facilitate working with it.
6. A structure of posts and boards for supporting workmen, etc., as in building.
7. The act or process of putting on an event.
8. The business of running stagecoaches.
9. The act of journeying in stagecoaches.
10. The classification of a case of a disease, usually a cancer, into its anatomic or prognostic stage, which is a category of severity.
11. An environment for testing that exactly resembles a production environment.
12. The process of loading and unloading commercial vehicles.