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staggered

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English

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Llansamlet railway station in Wales, showing the staggered platforms - the photographer is standing on one of them

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  • Rhymes: -æɡə(ɹ)d

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staggered

  1. simple past and past participle of stagger
    The drunk staggered to the end of the bar before he collapsed.

Adjective

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staggered (comparative more staggered, superlative most staggered)

  1. Astonished, taken aback.
  2. Arranged in a way that is not uniform.
    The U.S. Senate holds staggered elections, with only one third of the seats being filled every two years.
  3. Of platforms at a railway station, not directly opposite each other.
    • 1959 May, Yorkshireman, “The Huddersfield-Penistone line and its branches”, in Trains Illustrated, page 253:
      The line now veers slightly south through a wooded cutting before arriving at the staggered platforms of Stocksmoor station (6½ miles) and a further ¾-mile stretch of level track leads to Shepley & Shelley (7¼ miles).

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