depackage

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English

Etymology

From de- +‎ package.

Verb

depackage (third-person singular simple present depackages, present participle depackaging, simple past and past participle depackaged)

  1. To remove the packaging or casing from.
    • 1962, Package Engineering - Volume 7, page 31:
      Even the tackiest products "depackage" cleanly, completely.
    • 1997, Food Production Management - Volumes 120-121, page 22:
      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.
    • 2002, Proceedings of the CARDIS ... Smart Card Research and Advanced Application Conference:
      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.
  2. To separate into components; to unbundle.
    • 1979, Rick Cohen, Localism, Research Themes on Urban Smallness, page 35:
      Research is needed to identify and propose alternatives to structural disinventives, and to depackage currently turgid social programs.
    • 1982, Ziauddin Sardar, Science and Technology in the Middle East, page 73:
      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.
    • 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 crucial initial step in this strategy consists in the policy commitment and expertise to depackage or disaggregate the foreign contributions into clearly identifiable components.