position vs stage

position

verb
  • To put into place. 

noun
  • A commitment, or a group of commitments, such as options or futures, to buy or sell a given amount of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price. 

  • The full state of a chess game at any given turn. 

  • A situation suitable to perform some action. 

  • The order in which players are seated around the table. 

  • A status or rank. 

  • A place or location. 

  • A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error. 

  • An opinion, stand, or stance. 

  • A posture. 

  • A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player. 

  • A post of employment; a job. 

  • An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution. 

stage

verb
  • To orchestrate; to carry out. 

  • To produce on a stage, to perform a play. 

  • To demonstrate in a deceptive manner. 

  • To place in position to prepare for use. 

  • To determine what stage (a disease, etc.) has progressed to 

  • To jettison a spent stage of a multistage rocket or other launch vehicle and light the engine(s) of the stage above it. 

noun
  • A platform; a surface, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given. 

  • One of the portions of a device (such as a rocket or thermonuclear weapon) which are used or activated in a particular order, one after another. 

  • A floor or storey of a house. 

  • The number of an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier, etc. 

  • A stagecoach, an enclosed horsedrawn carriage used to carry passengers. 

  • A place where anything is publicly exhibited, or a remarkable affair occurs; the scene. 

  • The succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic time scale. 

  • A phase. 

  • The place on a microscope where the slide is located for viewing. 

  • An internship. 

  • A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf. 

  • A level; one of the sequential areas making up the game. 

  • A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, etc.; scaffolding; staging. 

How often have the words position and stage occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )