Stager vs Stayer - What's the difference?
stager | stayer |
An actor on the stage.
One who stages a theatrical performance.
* 1994 , Richard Beadle, The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre (page 271)
One who has long acted on the stage of life; a practitioner; a person of experience, or of skill derived from long experience.
A horse used in drawing a stage.
One who, or that which, upholds or supports; a prop.
One who, or that which, stays, stops, or restrains.
(sports, informal) An athlete, horse, etc. with staying power.
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As nouns the difference between stager and stayer
is that stager is an actor on the stage while stayer is one who, or that which, upholds or supports; a prop.stager
English
Noun
(en noun)- Here the principal stagers of saints' plays appear to have been the civic authorities, and guilds or confreries, and the popularity of this type of drama owed much to the cult of saints