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sticking-point

sticking-point is the alternative form of sticking point.

Meaning of sticking point

Noun

sticking point (plural sticking points)

  1. (idiomatic) A disputed issue or state of affairs that causes an interruption or outright impasse in progress towards some goal or resolution, especially in negotiation or argumentation.
    • The question of representing inside workers was a sticking point.1934 July 30, “41,000 Years' Work”, in Time
  2. (dated, idiomatic) The point at which a process or thing, especially a state of mind or emotion, reaches its greatest strength and remains steadfast; sticking-place.
    • It warmed his feelings to the sticking point.1842, James Fennimore Cooper, chapter 4, in The Wing and Wing

Forms of sticking-point

pluralsticking-points

Questions about sticking-point

What is sticking-point the alternative form of?
Sticking-point is the alternative form of sticking point.

Words near sticking-point in the dictionary

  1. sticking up
  2. sticking up for
  3. sticking with
  4. sticking-place
  5. sticking-places
  6. sticking-point
  7. sticking-points
  8. stickings
  9. stickit minister
  10. stickit ministers
  11. stickjaw

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