0 to arrange and control an event carefully in order to achieve the result you want:
Many people have become cynical about the stage-managed debates between politicians which regularly appear on television.
Can she confirm that that reason is that this is one photo opportunity that she cannot stage-manage?
You have got certain men who control and stage-manage those meetings and every conference, every lodge meeting and every congress.
Students are expected to stage-manage a production at some point in the grade twelve level.
The plans for all these schemes can be stage-managed by the trade unions.
