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staggered
[stag-erd]
adjective
arranged in a series of alternating or continually overlapping intervals of time.
Board members serve staggered four-year terms, with new directors replacing outgoing ones each year.
arranged so as to alternate on either side of a center.
A circular base approximately 2 meters in diameter is placed atop a couple of staggered layers of brick to allow for aeration from below.
scheduled or ordered in gradual stages; phased.
Microsoft has confirmed that the new update will be a staggered release.
rendered helpless with astonishment; shocked.
Shakespeare’s King Lear questions everything we know, posing to our staggered imaginations the possibility that the cosmos is immoral, even malevolent.
verb
the simple past tense and past participle of stagger.
Other Word Forms
- unstaggered adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of staggered1
Example Sentences
Some implementation of the law was staggered to give industries, including nail technicians, time to adapt.
Roads along the route will open and close on a staggered basis as runners pass.
She pointed out that secondary schools had to meet the challenge of managing students in large buildings, while trying to enforce one-way systems and staggered times for different year groups.
He staggered Bivol in the fifth with a menacing onslaught which ended with a right to the temple.
He arrives staggered under heaps of awkward baggage.
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