An experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service.
Someone who supervises the physical aspects in the production of a show and who is in charge of the stage when the show is being performed.
1The old stager turned round and stared at the younger politician.
2Steven Pienaar This old stager is a leading light for South Africans abroad.
3She is at her business as a stager of new fashions.
4My horse was a steady old stager, not at all given to shying.
5From the off Byrne played up the role of the curmudgeonly old stager.
6What could she make out of an old stager like me!
7At any other time he would have admired the policy of the old stager.
8But I'm too old a stager not to see the flimsiness of such pretensions.
9I'm used to it, and I'm too old a stager to change my habits.
10Take the word of an old stager for that.
11The notary certainly felt uncomfortable, but he was too old a stager to display it.
12He was evidently an old stager, who would give the best dogs something to do.
13You take the word of an old stager like me and you won't go far-
14The Devil, that old stager, at his trick
15Giles continued talking-I'man old stager, I am.
16I wasn't the steady old stager I am now, Bunny; my analysis was a confession in itself.