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What does stagger mean?

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Noun
  1. An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion
  2. (veterinary medicine) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling
  3. Bewilderment; perplexity.
  4. The spacing out of various actions over time.
  5. (motorsport) 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.
  6. (aviation) The horizontal positioning of a biplane, triplane, or multiplane's wings in relation to one another.
Verb
  1. Sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.
    1. (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.
    2. (transitive) To cause to reel or totter.
    3. (intransitive) To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
  2. Doubt, waver, be shocked.
    1. (intransitive) To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
    2. (transitive) To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
  3. (transitive) Have multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly-spaced, times or places (attested from 1856).
    1. 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.
    2. To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next.
    3. To schedule in intervals.
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