Adjective : a staggering amount of money required in the initial investment.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used without object) : After staggering momentarily, he recognized that he had to make a decision.    From Dictionary.com. 

Michael Brill looked tired last week as he ducked into his cavernous winery in eastern San Francisco to answer what he described as a staggering number of e-mail messages.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

The cost of delay, already staggering, is greater every day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » FEMA Chief Brown] Reference

And all without Bynum, and with Kobe staggering from the flu.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Forgot About Tim] Reference

What I find staggering is that was back in the '70s before word processors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Writing New Words Right...Hopefully] Reference

I have read your works, and they contain staggering and startling imagination.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harlan Ellison on God] Reference

Perhaps more staggering is the fact Sass has scored seven of his ten victories by triangle choke.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elliot Worsell: Britain's Third Wave of Mixed Martial Artists] Reference

"The Bailout Games" have already been labelled a staggering financial disaster.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gorilla Radio blog] Reference

He finds the line's price tag staggering, especially given the number of riders.    From Wordnik.com.  [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference

The damage was described as staggering even in a country accustomed to tragedy and disaster.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference

What They Do industry expert called staggering and said shows that Duke wants to build its reputation on a.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

In an age of the Internet and television it's time for the idea of staggering the primaries to go the way of the dinosaur.    From Wordnik.com.  [If I Still Lived in Michigan, I'd Be So Ticked Off at the DNC and the Candidates] Reference

The reason it’s staggering is simply because online media never existed before now, so we had to do it to understand it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thinking in Real Time] Reference

The real people who need to be upset here are those secretaries who aren’t beng accepted to law school in staggering numbers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Loyalty to Bush is this Administration’s Affirmative Action Policy] Reference

So, is that the kind of staggering event you have in mind?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama: Agent of Change? Well, Agent of Somethin’ « Antiwar.com Blog] Reference

There had been a "staggering" increase in crime in his area.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Researchers said the results of their study were "staggering".    From Wordnik.com.  [Crocs’ Long Walk Home | Impact Lab] Reference

U.S. Attorney Loretta E. Lynch called the fraud "staggering" in scope.    From Wordnik.com.  [Financial Briefing Book: Oct. 16-17] Reference

And the director saw me, like, kind of staggering, trying to get over there.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2003] Reference

"The figures were kind of staggering," recalls Samuel Gaskins, the jury foreman.    From Wordnik.com.  [When There's Smoke There's Fire] Reference

U.S. Attorney Loretta E. Lynch called the mortgage fraud "staggering" in its scope.    From Wordnik.com.  [N.Y. Real-Estate Developer Pleads Guilty to Mortgage Fraud] Reference

There were little white things floating around and people kind of staggering around cars.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 2, 2007] Reference

The government talks of the "staggering" £133bn bill for incapacity benefits over the past decade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Benefit cuts and fairness: We're all in this together… or are we?] Reference

Losing Myers would be "staggering" in light d the other women's departures, says a White House aide.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Non-Shuffle Shuffle] Reference

Ratings firm Standard & Poor's described the write-downs as "staggering" and blamed "management miscues.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Merrill Takes $8.4 Billion Credit Hit] Reference

And it's kind of staggering to think about, but at one time he had planned to translate Walden into French.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher Lydon: Damion Searls: A Thoreau Journal for Writers & Moderns (AUDIO)] Reference

R700 million which would increase this financial year's cut in the defence budget to a "staggering" R1,4 billion.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Dow Chemical Co. said it plans to raise prices on its products as much as 20% to offset "staggering" energy costs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Consumers Expect Higher Prices] Reference

By even conservative estimates, the program is racking up "staggering" costs, according to Municipal Market Advisors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Build America Bonds Boom, Adding to Tab] Reference

Suddenly we were off the coffin and kind of staggering through the air, Eric holding me to him with dogged persistence.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Together Dead]

With a "staggering" figure of 45 percent of the vote up for grabs Patricia de Lille's new party could have a role to play in.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

It's kind of staggering, the way she has hijacked the institution by staging an "epic collision" between herself and the state.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jay Rosen: Judith Miller and Her Times] Reference

Policies that have generated "staggering" growth helped propel the country up the table to 11th from 15th position, the report said.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The proportion of underweight children under five in South Asia had reached a "staggering" 47 percent, and 30 percent in sub-Saharan.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

In the professional component of the department - the prosecutors and magistrates - the turnover rate was a "staggering" 80.7 percent.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) grew to a "staggering" R27. 8 billion by the end of March this year, the Labour Department said on.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Predictably, some of Oprah's aforementioned fans are outraged: "There's nothing" staggering "about how this guy became famous," wrote one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Joseph: Oprah's Jay-Z Moment] Reference

(Soundbite of song "Bein Schlafengehen") Ms. FLEMING: It's a kind of staggering of these two voices in a way, and the beauty of this dream.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renee Fleming: 'Four Last Songs' Of Strauss] Reference