Signification de stagger En anglais

• 0 to walk as if you might fall

  • The injured man staggered away. L’homme blessé s’éloigna d’un pas chancelant.

• 1 to divide a process into parts that do not all begin or happen at the same time

  • The government staggered the payments over a three-week period. Le gouvernement a échelonné les paiements sur une période de trois semaines.

• 2 to shock

  • We were staggered by the poverty we saw. Nous avons été atterrés par la misère dont nous avons été témoins.

• 3 to sway, move or walk unsteadily

  • The drunk man staggered along the road.

• 4 to astonish

  • I was staggered to hear he had died.

• 5 to arrange (people’s hours of work, holidays etc) so that they do not begin and end at the same times

  • The interviews have been staggered throughout the course of the afternoon.