Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To free from a condition of adhesion: couldn't unstick the window.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To free, as one thing stuck to another; loose.
Wiktionary
- v. To free something from the condition of being stuck (mechanically, emotionally, or with adhesive)
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To release, as one thing stuck to another.
Examples
“In such a case, a raise in the min wage may 'unstick' the market in such a way as to provide a net benefit to workers that is greater than the cost to employers.”
The Minimum Wage, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“So maybe BP isn't the best example yet, but clearly businesses that embrace principles of social entrepreneurship--discovering how to "unstick" society when it has gotten stuck, by changing the system--are having widespread impact in making the new buzzphrase "social value" the litmus test for success for not only social entrepreneurs but profit-oriented businesses, too.”
“So maybe BP isn't the best example yet, but clearly businesses that embrace principles of social entrepreneurship -- discovering how to "unstick" society when it has gotten stuck, by changing the system -- are having widespread impact in making the new buzzphrase "social value" the litmus test for success for not only social entrepreneurs but profit-oriented businesses, too.”
“Does Alpert find a way to 'unstick' Locke, thus freeing him to leave the island?”
“The Catalyst software drivers that come with the card can't do the job; only the GPU Clock Tool software can "unstick" the card's clock speeds.”
“For her part, Mills, speaking at last week's confirmation hearing, said her top priority will be to "unstick" the frozen credit markets.”
“But now I'm having a hard time getting it to "unstick" the 3rd time.”
“COL WOOV8 Update: Tracy Caldwell-Dyson's attempt yesterday to "unstick" the LTL WOOV8”
“Can we all use a little retraining to unstick the this "Stuck Generation?”
“Then he had a science-fictiony kind of nightmare, and decided to turn it into a childrens story, mainly to see if writing it would unstick the other book.”
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