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unˈbundle, v.
[un-2 3.]
1. trans. To unpack, take out of a bundle. Also fig.
1606S. Gardiner Bk. Angling 111 Who so is a wise merchant will not vnbundle his seuerall wares to such. 1611Florio, Disfagottare, to vnfaggot, to vnbundle. a1739Jarvis Quix. (1749) II. iii. vi. 220 Unbundle your griefs, madam, and let us into the particulars.
2. To introduce a system of separate charging for (items previously charged for collectively, esp. computer hardware and software).
1969Datamation XV. 69 (heading) IBM ‘unbundles’ hardware/services charges... Will software be next? 1971New Scientist 15 July 140/1 Programs, courses, computer maintenance and systems engineering would be priced separately (or ‘unbundled’) from the computers themselves. 1977Business Week 18 Apr. 83/2 Banks may then be forced to unbundle costs and charge an additional 30¢ or so for each check processed. 1983Austral. Microcomputer Mag. Dec. 40/3 The 8086 processor has been unbundled and is now an option.
Hence unˈbundling vbl. n., (the introduction of) a policy of separate charging for related items.
1969Datamation XV. 69/1 IBM ‘expects to make changes in the way it charges for and supports its data processing equipment’. The word for it is ‘unbundling’. 1971E. F. Schoeters in B. de Ferranti Living with Computer viii. 72 These arguments are becoming academic in the light of separate pricing of hardware, software, support and staff training, commonly known by the unlovely name of ‘unbundling’. 1981Economist 11 July 65/2 Independent Japanese software houses, helped by separate pricing (‘unbundling’) of software and hardware by computer makers, are starting to write their own packaged programmes.
Add:3. Comm. To split (a company or business conglomerate) into its constituent businesses or assets; to reorganize or dispose of (a constituent part) in this way. Also absol.
1981Chemical Week 11 Mar. 50/3 Unbundling a specialized group from the parent company can concentrate valuable expertise in one place. 1982Amer. Banker 28 July 61/2 In practical terms, companies are learning to ‘unbundle’, to move away from the classic idea and the traditional package of equity, technology, and management. 1983Canad. Business Oct. 16 The PBX market is heating up because of the US government's decision to unbundle American Telephone and Telegraph Co. 1989Independent 28 Sept. 31/1 The decision of BAT to unbundle its US retail holdings comes at a..bad time.
Hence (in sense *3) unˈbundler n.
1989N.Y. Times 17 July d8/6 The man the City calls ‘the great unbundler’ vows to sell off most of B.A.T.'s peripheral businesses. 1989Observer 3 Sept. 28/4 ‘He was not well-publicised when he worked for Goldsmith,’ says James Wood, a former associate of the great unbundler.
Add:2. Comm. The splitting of a company or business conglomerate into its constituent businesses or assets.
1977Fortune Aug. 114/1 Many countries believe that they can have the benefits provided by multinationals without having to let in the companies themselves. They think they can do this by a process of ‘unbundling’. 1981Business Week 26 Jan. 70/3 The reason for this ‘vertical disintegration’ or ‘unbundling’..is that each company bears a smaller part of the capital investment burden. 1985Computerworld 10 June 112/4 Anderson recalled a 1974 report, ‘The Unbundling of AT & T’, predicting..restructuring of the telecommunications industry. 1989Times 10 Aug. 10/4 The semantic scholiasts at Lowe Bell Finance Ltd...argue that unbundling is not the same as asset stripping. |