stagger betydelse and definition

Betydelse av stagger på svenska

• 0 to walk or move with difficulty as if you are going to fall:

  • After he was attacked, he managed to stagger to the phone and call for help.

  • figurative The company is staggering under a $15 million debt and will almost certainly collapse by the end of the year.

• 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:

  • Some countries have staggered school holidays so that holiday resorts do not become overcrowded.

• 3 a way of walking or moving in which you almost fall:

  • He left the bar with a drunken stagger.

• 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:

  • [ T ] When he hit his head on a shelf, it momentarily staggered him.

  • [ I ] She staggered out of bed to answer the phone.

• 5 to arrange events or schedules so that they happen at different times, or to arrange objects so they are not regular:

  • The clinics will try to stagger vaccination times to minimize waits and confusion.

• 6 to arrange for things like holidays, working hours, or payments to happen at different times so that they are easier to manage:

  • Utilities companies will allow customers to stagger payments when they have bills they cannot pay.

  • Over half of American firms stagger the election of board members, so that the whole board is not replaced at once.