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• n  flesh of any of various American and European flatfish
• n  any of various European and non-European marine flatfish
• v  walk with great difficulty
• v  behave awkwardly; have difficulties
  She is floundering in college

• Even longtime workers still flounder at the wardrobe, because almost two decades since the term first appeared in corporate dress codes, our understanding of business casual .
• Then, in 1998, another of the firm's investments, a two-year-old women's magazine called Look (now I-Look), started to flounder, and Hung gladly offered to forsake assembly lines .
• Twenty-two million eggs, flounder eggs, traveled in a baggage car last week from Woods Hole, Mass.

• stagger

News & Articles

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• Rollover facing changing tide
  The days of dropping a line and hooking a large flounder, pulling it from the teeming waters of Rollover Pass may soon be a thing of the past.
  June 16, 2013 - The Orange Leader
• RFA flounder tournament was a success
  The first annual RFA Bass River Summer Flounder Tournament is now in the record books, and we can safely say that it was a grand success.
  June 13, 2013 - Asbury Park Press
• RFA flounder tournament was a success
  The first annual RFA Bass River Summer Flounder Tournament is now in the record books, and we can safely say that it was a grand success.
  June 13, 2013 - Asbury Park Press

Quotes

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• James Glassman in New York Times
  The cost of allowing an economy to flounder is very high in lost output and rising unemployment,said James Glassman, chief domestic economist at JPMorgan Chase & Company.
• Naoto Kan in The Japan Times
  What helped the economy to flounder is a wrong economic policy. I promise to rebuild the economy and put Japan on a growth track,Kan, making his first stump speech for the race, said in front of more than 1,000 people in Osaka.
• Heather Boushey in Los Angeles Times
  The reality is that if we let people just flounder and not help them, we're shooting ourselves in the foot,said Heather Boushey, senior economist at the left-leaning Center for American Progress.