misstaging

Verb

misstage (third-person singular simple present misstages, present participle misstaging, simple past and past participle misstaged)

1. To stage improperly.
   • The lower end of each movable sleeve incorporates a flow control orifice plate to prevent rapid misstaging due to improper packing adjustment.1979, Chilton's Truck & Off-highway Industries, page 67
   1. To assess incorrectly as belonging to a different stage than is actually the case
      • In the tumors that were misstaged, most errors occurred between stages T2 (overstaging) and T3 (understaging); in terms of therapeutic considerations, this distinction is more critical than that between stages T1 and T2.1998, Morton A. Meyers, Neoplasms of the Digestive Tract, page 407
   2. (performing arts) To stage (a performance) badly.
      • But Schneider has wantonly misstaged Lucky's monologue: instead of a recitation by rote of a travestied history of Western philosophy and religion that gradually disintegrates into chaos, we get a choppy set of starts and stops, as of a jalopy that cannot get into proper gear.1971 March 1, John Simon, “The Sorcerer and His Apprentices”, in New York Magazine, volume 4, number 9, page 58