stagger

IPA: stˈægɝ

An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion.
(veterinary medicine) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling.
Bewilderment; perplexity.
The spacing out of various actions over time.
(motor racing) The difference in circumference between the left and right tires on a racing vehicle. It is used on oval tracks to make the car turn better in the corners.
(aviation) The horizontal positioning of a biplane, triplane, or multiplane's wings in relation to one another.
(UK) One who attends a stag night.

To sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.
(intransitive) In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.
(transitive) To cause to reel or totter.
(intransitive) To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
Doubt, waver, be shocked.
(intransitive) To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
(transitive) To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
(transitive) Have multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly spaced, times or places (attested from 1856).
To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next.
To schedule in intervals or at different times.

Examples of "stagger" in Sentences

A man is staggering on the road.
The amount of discharge was staggering.
The amount of references is staggering.
The man took the pills in staggering numbers.
To stagger is to totter, reel, or lose balance.
Note the pronounced stagger of the cylinder banks.
Nascar: What does the term stagger refer to on a race car?
The amount of misinformation spread by the media is staggering.
However, the cost of Kugelblitz to the Partisans was staggering.
The accounts of these voyages and the dimensions of the ships are staggering.
It maintains the "stagger" and assists in maintaining the angle of incidence.
At the time, it was the biggest supermarket in the world and it is staggering.
I was right glad, glad with a "stagger" of the heart, to see your writing again.
-- The stagger is the distance the top surface is in advance of the bottom surface when the aeroplane is in flying position.
Lateness, laziness, or insubordination were punished by the deduction of so many marks from their weekly earnings, and all on the say-so of the "stagger" in charge of the squad.
MR. MCCURRY: It's going to be hard enough to get news organizations interested in these conventions to begin with, so we could kind of stagger the air traffic pattern a little bit -- that would be a welcome development.