Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To divide into constituent parts.
  • intransitive verb To break up or break apart.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To separate into component parts, or from an aggregate; break up the aggregation of.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To destroy the aggregation of; to separate into component parts, as an aggregate mass.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective not aggregate
  • verb to separate or break down into components

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

dis- + aggregate

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Examples

  • I dont think the hard right will understand the term disaggregate as it is not in King James.

    Bill Clinton weighs in on charges of racism against Obama 2009

  • Then, this month, he said we have to "disaggregate" the issue of raising taxes on the very rich, from the issue of raising them on the middle class.

    ObaMO 2008

  • But the writing often doesn't show such care: He opts to say "disaggregate" when "separate" would do nicely, and "utilize" rather than simply "use."

    Buying a Piece of the Market 2008

  • Kilcullen speaks of the need to "disaggregate" insurgencies: finding ways to address local grievances in Pakistan's tribal areas or along the Thai-Malay border so they aren't mapped onto the ambitions of the global jihad.

    Archive 2006-12-01 Bruce Schauble 2006

  • Kilcullen speaks of the need to "disaggregate" insurgencies: finding ways to address local grievances in Pakistan's tribal areas or along the Thai-Malay border so they aren't mapped onto the ambitions of the global jihad.

    Foreign Policy Bruce Schauble 2006

  • However, there were problems with the ANC's computer system which used to "disaggregate" new memberships.

    News24 Top Stories 2010

  • This simple breakdown is intended to help people grasp the real purpose behind securitization and derivatives trading, which is not to make markets operate more efficiently or to "disaggregate" (spread) risk (as the proponents of "innovation" say).

    CounterPunch 2010

  • This simple breakdown is intended to help people grasp the real purpose behind securitization and derivatives trading, which is not to make markets operate more efficiently or to "disaggregate" (spread) risk (as the proponents of "innovation" say).

    CounterPunch 2010

  • He said proposals to "disaggregate" a service purchased by a customer "would undercut the very premise of innovation we should want, and are likely to fail."

    C - Advertising News 2010

  • However, there were problems with the ANC's computer system used to "disaggregate" new memberships.

    iac world news feed 2010

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