English-French translations for stagger

• tituber
  J'ai vu deux hommes forts soulever des sacs de cinquante kilos sur le dos de femmes et je les ai vus tituber jusqu'à leur abris en plastique à des kilomètres de là. I watched two strong men lifting 50-kg bags on to women' s backs and saw them stagger off to their plastic shelters kilometres away.
• chanceler
• barguigner
• échelonner
  Il serait donc judicieux d'échelonner la mise en œuvre du règlement afin de leur permettre d'effectuer les ajustements nécessaires. It would therefore be legitimate to stagger over time the implementation of the regulation in order to allow the necessary adjustments.
  Car elle permet aux sociétés d'obtenir le droit d'appliquer un régime transitoire, c'est-à-dire d'échelonner les délais spécifiés pour l'enregistrement des substances. This is because it offers companies the opportunity to establish the right to apply a transitional regime, in other words, stagger the times specified for registering substances.
• époustoufler
• étonner
• flageolement
• flageoler
• sidérer
• stupéfier
• vaciller

Definition of stagger

• An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion
• A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling
• Bewilderment; perplexity
• 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.[https://web.archive.org/web/20130815123243/http://www.stockcarracing.com/techarticles/scrp_0805_tire_stagger/ Stock Car Racing magazine article on stagger], February 2009
• Sway unsteadily, reel, or totter
• Doubt, waver, be shocked
• Have multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly-spaced, times or places (attested from 1856[http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=stagger Etymology] in :w:Online Etymology Dictionary|Online Etymology Dictionary

Examples

• the stagger of a drunken man
• parasitic staggers
• apoplectic or sleepy staggers
• She began to stagger across the room.
• The powerful blow of his opponents fist staggered the boxer.
• He will stagger the committee when he presents his report.
• We will stagger the starting positions for the race on the oval track.
• We will stagger the run so the faster runners can go first, then the joggers.

Related words

• staggering
• staggered
• staggeringly
• staggerwort
• stagger breathing
• stagger breathe
• staggered conformation
• staggering drunk
• staggered holidays