| 释义 |
unˈbundled, ppl. a.
[f. unbundle v. + -ed1.]
1. Designating or offered under a retailing system in which related goods or services are marketed or priced as individual items rather than invariably as part of a package or ‘bundle’.
1973Bryan & Clark Unbundling 33 Unbundled pricing means that any particular customer is able to purchase products individually, a la carte, from his supplier. 1977Business Week (Industr. Ed.) 23 May 26/1 If that day of the ‘unbundled’ prices comes, many of the country's 20,000 small bank and thrift institutions will find the competition hard to deal with. 1979Amer. Banker 18 June 8/4 The average consumer would be better off with an unbundled system under which he is paid a market rate of interest on his deposit. 1988Austral. PC World 7 Mar. 18/1 Apple Australia quietly issued revised recommended retail prices on its Macintosh line in February... All systems are now sold unbundled.
2. Of a business or asset: no longer part of a conglomerate; separate, independent.
1980Business Week (Industr. Ed.) 11 Aug. 44/2 It will be at least two years before the new holding company, into which the unbundled properties are being placed, is ready to do business. 1982National Jrnl. (U.S.) 14 Aug. 1430/2 The ex-Bell operating companies begin their new unbundled life with a raft of problems. 1989Internat. Business Week 6 Mar. 37/3 Shearson..may attach voting rights, offer an additional 1{pcnt} of each unbundled unit for every share of common being exchanged, [etc.]. |