regard as unconnected; "you must dissociate these two events!"; "decouple our foreign policy from ideology"

disconnect or separate; "uncouple the hounds"

eliminate airborne shockwaves from (an explosive)

reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another)

Refers to the provision of support to an enterprise, usually a farm, in a manner that does not provide an incentive to increase production. Farm subsidies that are decoupled are included in the green box and are therefore permitted by the WTO.

Introduction of the concept of donation, by a professional not associated with transplantation, only after the family has had time to absorb the reality and finality of brain death.