Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To free from a condition of adhesion.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To free, as one thing stuck to another; loose.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To release, as one thing stuck to another.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
free something from the condition of beingstuck (mechanically, emotionally, or with adhesive)
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Examples
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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 2009
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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.
Marian Salzman: Reinvention, Part II Marian Salzman 2010
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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.
Marian Salzman: Reinvention, Part II Marian Salzman 2010
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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.
Marian Salzman: Reinvention, Part II Marian Salzman 2010
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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.
Marian Salzman: Reinvention, Part II Marian Salzman 2010
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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.
Marian Salzman: Reinvention, Part II Marian Salzman 2010
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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.
Marian Salzman: Reinvention, Part II Marian Salzman 2010
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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.
Marian Salzman: Reinvention, Part II Marian Salzman 2010
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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.
Marian Salzman: Reinvention, Part II Marian Salzman 2010
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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.
Marian Salzman: Reinvention, Part II Marian Salzman 2010
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