0 to walk or move with difficulty as if you are going to fall: --
1 to cause someone to feel shocked or surprised because of something unexpected or very unusual happening: --
He staggered all his colleagues by suddenly announcing that he was leaving the company at the end of the month.
2 to arrange things, especially hours of work, holidays, or events, so that they begin at different times from those of other people: --
4 to walk or move awkwardly, as if you have lost your balance, or to cause someone to move awkwardly or to lose his or her balance: --
5 to arrange events or schedules so that they happen at different times, or to arrange objects so they are not regular: --
The two structures thus use the same pitches and note lengths, but staggered and overlapping differently.
Envision this economy without staggering, that is, household unions fix the money wage for two periods, but they all reset it in the same period.
Agriculture and the transport system were likewise soon staggering under the strains imposed by war.
The amount of food and supplies needed to provision the royal entourage could be staggering.
One would imagine that the losses in human capital are staggering.
Following release of strain, the characteristic staggered arrangement was recovered, indicating that microfibril bundle elasticity is reversible.
Rather, he gives us unexpert sophistication: a village band staggering from solecism to solecism in an ostentatiously banal and trivial tune.
Despite this, many dealers earned staggering incomes by generating incredible turnovers.
