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  • verb transitive To lift a ban against.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ ban

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Examples

  • Koman says the online giant provided names and emails for some 200,000 Iranian Yahoo users to authorities so that those same authorities would "unban" Yahoo on the state-controlled internet.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Some of the "unban" folks are political allies, people I have long respected.

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • $prime_ban_to_group = new prime_ban_to_group (null, 'unban');

    phpBB.com ibelphegor 2010

  • Perhaps down the road, once Dance is out, that they will unban those people.

    In Defense of George R. R. Martin - Suvudu - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, and Games 2009

  • So to ban or to unban depends on whether there is the political insight and necessary imagination to fully understand the connections between policy areas and the political will and knowhow to follow through on those conclusions.

    Is fairness enough? Alix Mortimer 2008

  • In order to unban your account you will need a parent to call Orbis Games and discuss proper internet safety guidelines.

    KidSpace Stamp 2007

  • That's funny that they A&O banned Facebook but had to unban it due to complaints by their employees.

    Facebook at Law Firms: Cannot be Banned 2007

  • I agree with kibbles; on the one hand, it's pretty damn funny that someone called with a long, rambling message to Brad, founder of LJ, offering to have sex with him if he'd unban her friends.

    Random Stuff Makes The World Go Round: Underlining Spiders kibbles 2004

  • Hahah - lets say FG was spamming, but then lets unban them.

    Digg and Calacanis Bush-whack Critics - Publishing 2.0 2006

  • The good thing about this conversation is that if we unban you, then your comments will stop going into moderation automatically, and you will no longer be chained to our schedules, stresses, and whims.

    Alas, a Moderation Policy 2005

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