1. to disconnect or separate two things that were joined or linked together
2. to end the connection between two processes, systems, or economic factors so they operate independently
Usage: technical; economics

Examples

• The engineer had to decouple the train cars before entering the station.
• The company decided to decouple its software division from hardware operations.
• Economic growth has begun to decouple from carbon emissions in some countries.
• They worked to decouple the payment system from the main database.
• The spacecraft will decouple from the space station tomorrow morning.
• Experts suggest we need to decouple economic success from environmental damage.