0 past participle, past simple of stage-manage --
1 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.
The whole thing is stage-managed admirably and in the most spectacular way.
We witness that from time to time in the stage-managed conferences with the deferential political eunuchs engaging in standing ovations to order.
There, the major policy debates are carefully timetabled—some would say too carefully—or stage-managed.
We cannot accept the accusation of stage-managed visits against a team of distinguished, experienced and competent men who have given a report on this matter.
That stage-managed intervention gives me a great deal of pleasure.
I think we may really dismiss his speech as a finely stage-managed but not very serious attempt to deal with this question.
It is widely recognised in the industry that it is foolish to become involved in campaigns that are politically stage-managed.
We know that party conferences have become rather stage-managed, and that one surely more than most.
