Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A worker who shifts scenery, adjusts lighting, and performs other tasks required in a theatrical production.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. an employee of a theater who performs work involved in putting on a theatrical production
Etymologies
- stage + hand (manual worker) (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The 'stagehand' is Ant (or possibly Dec), presenter of the show. gunga galunga: he knew exactly what audeince's preconceptions”
“He was a stagehand at the Cleveland Convention Center and a lighting man at the Roxy Bar & Grille on Short Vincent Avenue.”
“Â In truth, Chaplin did not always portray a tramp; in many of his films his character was employed as a waiter, store clerk, stagehand, fireman, and the like.”
“Five minutes, a stagehand poked her head in and told Alaina.”
“SELLER: Heidi Brown, a stagehand on Broadway in New York.”
“Brent Haywood Heidi Brown, a stagehand on Broadway in New York, inherited this Mediterranean-style house in La Jolla, Calif., from her aunt and uncle, who died in February within two weeks of each other after almost 61 years of marriage.”
“Among those killed were security guard Glenn Goodrich and stagehand Nathan Byrd.”
“I spoke with Eric Lavalley, a stagehand who picketed with his IATSE union Saturday afternoon on Broad Street.”
“Anton Troianovski / The Wall Street Journal After switching to AT&T from Alltel: Deadwood, S.D., stagehand Mike Stockert says his phone rarely worked after the switch and service is still spotty.”
The Wall Street Journal: Phone Deals Dial Up Coverage Problems
“It put me in a coffin, is all I can say," said Deadwood stagehand Mike Stockert, 21 years old, who still gets spotty service since AT&T took over.”
The Wall Street Journal: Phone Deals Dial Up Coverage Problems
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘stagehand’.
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Handy Words
List of words and phrases referring to the hand, hands, fist, or derivatives of the Latin manus, beginning with left-handed.
left-handed, double-fisted, fisticuffs, handy, right-handed, two-handed, manual, manumission, manuscript, manually, manustupration, manudiction and 164 more...
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billfence's Words
quotidian, flux, sawbuck, horsefeathers, chalcedony, harp, no, fox, tennis, badminton, flue, charm and 186 more...
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Who Are You?
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chevalier, somnambulist, sommelier, troubadour, vicar, majordomo, caliph, polyglot, polymath, apprentice, nuyorican, privateer and 107 more...
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Tuesday words
just the next words that come along
nasality, transignification, lapsarian, disciple, slanguage, atwitter, avast, ahoy, asleep, awake, hymnody, glissade and 573 more...
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handie
handy compounds
beforehand, hamhanded, freehand, handicraft, handmade, handheld, handfull, handiwork, handsew, handmaid, handpicked, panhandle and 42 more...
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