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upstagings

upstagings is the plural of upstaging.

Meaning of upstaging

Noun

upstaging (plural upstagings)

  1. (also, figuratively) A stealing of the spotlight, as (or as if) one performer eclipses another in the audience's attention.
  2. An increase in the stage of a case of a disease (usually a cancer), from a less-threatening to a more-threatening stage.
    Antonyms:
    downstaging

Questions about upstagings

What is upstagings the plural of?
Upstagings is the plural of upstaging.

Words near upstagings in the dictionary

  1. upstaged
  2. upstager
  3. upstagers
  4. upstages
  5. upstaging
  6. upstagings
  7. upstair
  8. upstairs
  9. upstairs-downstairs
  10. upstand
  11. upstander

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Adapted from Wiktionary: upstagings (page history and authors); upstaging (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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