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depackage en · VERB

Etymology

From de- + package.

Meanings

1. To remove the packaging or casing from.
   • With very concentrated nitric acid and organic solvent it seems to be possible to depackage a smart card or a classical processor without damaging it. 2002, Proceedings of the CARDIS ... Smart Card Research and Advanced Application Conference:
   • Even the tackiest products "depackage" cleanly, completely. 1962, Package Engineering - Volume 7, page 31:
   • Baader's separators perform a variety of food processing and recycling applications, including: depackages individually-wrapped cheese slices and butter pats, pet foods and pharmaceutical products from plastic tubs, wraps, or tubes; separates skins from apples, bananas, avocados or potatoes; and debones and desinews meat products. 1997, Food Production Management - Volumes 120-121, page 22:
2. To separate into components; to unbundle.
   • The crucial initial step in this strategy consists in the policy commitment and expertise to depackage or disaggregate the foreign contributions into clearly identifiable components. 1989, United Nations, Centre on Transnational Corporations (United Nations), Soviet Union. Gosudarstvennyĭ komitet po nauke i tekhnike, Joint ventures as a form of international economic cooperation, page 95:
   • The aim of these programmes is to generate enough expertise to 'depackage' imported technologies, such as solar and nuclear technologies, in a manner that would allow them to produce locally as many components as possible and import only those parts which are beyond their industrial and technological capabilities. 1982, Ziauddin Sardar, Science and Technology in the Middle East, page 73:
   • Research is needed to identify and propose alternatives to structural disinventives, and to depackage currently turgid social programs. 1979, Rick Cohen, Localism, Research Themes on Urban Smallness, page 35:

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