decouple

verb

de·cou·ple | \(ˌ)dē-ˈkə-pəl

Definition of decouple

transitive verb

: to eliminate the interrelationship of : separate

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to have a fruitful discussion, we need to decouple fact from opinion

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Beginning in the 1980s, Democratic legislators led by California Rep. Henry Waxman decoupled Medicaid from AFDC. — Mark Schmitt, Vox, "Why did Bernie Sanders’s Stop BEZOS legislation draw so much resistance?," 18 Sep. 2018 Regulators mandated that Google decouple its services. — Adam Satariano, The Seattle Times, "Google to charge phone makers for Android apps in Europe," 16 Oct. 2018 Armenians under the age of 30, known as the Independence Generation because most were born after the country decoupled from the Soviet Union in 1991, formed the backbone of the protests. — New York Times, "Behind Armenia’s Revolt, Young Shock Troops From the Tech Sector," 19 May 2018 But by going wireless, and by doing it so well, AirPods also decouple that intimacy from the tether that generally has signaled it in social circumstances. — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, "Apple's Airpods Are an Omen," 12 June 2018 Separately, the Assembly passed a bill to decouple teacher evaluations from students’ standardized test performance. — New York Times, "Legislative Year Ends on Wednesday, Likely With a Whimper," 17 June 2018 The European Union, for instance, touted its success at decoupling emissions from economic growth and noted that its share of global emissions nearly halved between 1990 and 2012. — Jean Chemnick, Scientific American, "Caribbean Island Nations Cite U.S. Report at Climate Change Talks," 3 May 2018 The contest has become a pure power play, decoupled from the reality of irregular migration. — The Economist, "How policy debates in Europe become untethered from reality," 12 July 2018 Pyrotechnic charges have been used since before Apollo to decouple the empty parts of a rocket—once the fuel is burned, fuel tanks are just unwanted weight. — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, "SpaceX Can't Hire International Rocket Scientists Even If It Wants To," 28 Sep. 2016

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decouple

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Financial Definition of decouple

What It Is

Decoupling refers to instances in which security prices behave contrary to normally-occurring correlations.

How It Works

Movements in the price of different securities may be directly or indirectly correlated. In other words, as a given type of security rises in price, the price of another type of security might be expected to fall or also rise depending on its exposure to market dynamics. Decoupling refers to the divergence in securities' expected price behavior vis-à-vis one another.

For instance, the stock and bond prices for a given company generally rise and fall in response to fluctuations in market demand. However, a rise in the price of the stock accompanied by a rise in interest rates causing the market value of the bond to move in the opposite direction would constitute decoupling.

Why It Matters

Investors and analysts rely on security price correlations in order to gauge market trends and help with strategic decisions. Investors and analysts should be aware of discrete changes in market dynamics that might require them to investigate thoroughly such price relationships under certain circumstances.

Source: Investing Answers