staggered

English

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

staggered

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

staggered (comparative more staggered, superlative most staggered)

Astonished, taken aback.
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.
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).

astonished — see astonished

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