forestage

1. (theater) To block so that someone or something appears in the forestage.Examples: "There is subtle thought, even profound thought, not so much in the working out of the plots as in the selection and forestaging of such humorous situations as make the plots work themselves out."; "Yet, despite the invocation of cultural practices in images, the facade setting preventing the spectators' attention from wandering to an outside environment, prevented spectators from seeing the action as a natural aspect of a total environment by forestaging the action as a construct in response to particular situations."

2. (by extension) To make prominent; to bring into focus.Examples: "Not only was Binodlal one of the first to forestage sontap (“heat”) as the key element in fevers, but he was also one of the first to try to understand sontap as "motion.""; "It forestages the insistent presence of patterns of centre/periphery relations within Chicanidad, or rather the presence of multi-tier Chicanidades, with substantial disparities regarding the needs and problems of their members, increasing the gap between the centred and the peripheral ones."broadly

1. (UK, law, historical) A duty or tribute payable to the king's foresters.UKhistorical

2. (UK, law, historical) A service paid by foresters to the king.UKhistorical