MEANING
1. To split a business or combined operation into separately organized parts.
2. To offer products or services separately after previously providing them as one package.
Use it for
analyzing the separation of business functions; describing a company divided into independent units; distinguishing organizational restructuring from expansion; examining a previously combined operation one part at a timeDistinguishes separating an organizational package from separating what buyers must pay for together. Writing functions: Analysis / Interpretation, Comparison / Contrast.
Words that belong together
- unbundle a business
- unbundle operations
- unbundle a company
On the page
Regulators proposed unbundling the network operator from the retail business.
The firm unbundled its operations, making the costs of each division easier to compare.
Once the airline unbundled its fares, a ticket no longer included checked baggage.
The analysis compares bundled subscriptions with services that have been unbundled.
Word forms
- Base
- unbundle
- Past tense
- unbundled
- Past participle
- unbundled
- Present participle
- unbundling
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- unbundle
- Present continuous
- am/is/are unbundling
- Present perfect
- have/has unbundled
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been unbundling
- Past
- unbundled
- Past continuous
- was/were unbundling
- Past perfect
- had unbundled
- Past perfect continuous
- had been unbundling
- Future
- will unbundle
- Future continuous
- will be unbundling
- Future perfect
- will have unbundled
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been unbundling
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Transitive verb: unbundle; unbundles; unbundled; unbundled; unbundling. Future: will unbundle. Business and economic uses are central. Register: neutral. Commonness: moderately common in business; less common generally (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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