MEANING
To separate a combined total or dataset into its component groups or parts.
Use it for
hidden inequalities; subgroup comparisons; unpacking totalsShow when a headline average hides contrasting experiences.
Words that belong together
- disaggregate data
- disaggregate by gender
- disaggregate national figures
On the page
Disaggregate the employment figures by age before drawing conclusions.
Once costs were disaggregated, maintenance proved more expensive than fuel.
The national total cannot be disaggregated reliably because several districts changed boundaries.
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Word forms
- Base
- disaggregate / disaggregates
- Past tense
- disaggregated
- Past participle
- disaggregated
- Present participle
- disaggregating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- disaggregate / disaggregates
- Present continuous
- am/is/are disaggregating
- Present perfect
- have/has disaggregated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been disaggregating
- Past
- disaggregated
- Past continuous
- was/were disaggregating
- Past perfect
- had disaggregated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been disaggregating
- Future
- will disaggregate / disaggregates
- Future continuous
- will be disaggregating
- Future perfect
- will have disaggregated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been disaggregating
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Usage notes
Primary category: academic. Formal and common in policy research. Disaggregate by a grouping variable, such as age; this reveals subgroup patterns rather than automatically explaining them. Verb inflections [base, third-person singular, past, past participle, -ing]: disaggregate, disaggregates, disaggregated, disaggregated, disaggregating. Derived family (not inflections): disaggregation.
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