Definition of staging
noun
1an instance or method of presenting a play or other dramatic performance:one of the better stagings of this Shakesperean classic the quality of staging and design an instance of organizing a public event or protest:the fourteenth staging of the championships
2a stage or set of stages or temporary platforms arranged as a support for performers or between different levels of scaffolding.
3 Medicine diagnosis or classification of the particular stage reached by a progressive disease.
4the arrangement of stages in a rocket or spacecraft. the separation and jettisoning of a stage from the remainder of a rocket when its propellant is spent.