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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
stagger/ˈstaɡə(r)/
▶verb
  • 1 walk or move unsteadily, as if about to fall.

    ■ continue in existence or operation uncertainly: the treasury staggered from one crisis to the next.

  • 2 astonish or shock.
  • 3 spread over a period of time.
  • 4 arrange (objects or parts) so that they are not in line.
  • 5 archaic waver or hesitate.
▶noun
  • 1 an act of staggering.
  • 2 (the stagger) the staggered arrangement of the runners on a track at the start of a race.
– derivatives
staggerer noun,
staggering noun & adjective,
staggeringly adverb.
– origin ME: alt. of dial. stacker, from ON stakra, frequentative of staka ‘push, stagger’.



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