delinkingn.
/(ˌ)diːˈlɪŋkɪŋ/, U.S. /diˈlɪŋkɪŋ/ Frequently South Asian (originally and chiefly Indian English).
1. The breaking of the connection or relationship of dependency between two or more things; the separation of something administratively or conceptually from something else. Also: an instance of this.Chiefly in political or economic contexts.
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1936 Times of India 23 Mar. 4/2 The move for the delinking of Burma from the constitution of the Indian Congress must come from Burma in a specific form.
1971 Econ. & Polit. Weekly 11 Sept. 1956/2 Though the delinking, the diffusion, and fair competition, have long been accepted as desirable goals, where is the ‘fairness’ in a ‘delinking’ that would exclude publications of the Congress, Communist, Jan Sangh and Swatantra parties..from the purview of the proposals.
2019 Business Day (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 12 July 9 Such a remarkable change has seen the delinking of emissions from economic growth long been thought to be inextricably tied together.
2. The separation of a currency from a commodity, index, or other currency, which has previously governed its value. Frequently with from.
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1938 B. P. Adarkar in Indian Finance 1 Oct. 830/1 De-linking or devaluation in itself would not be sufficient to increase our national efficiency either in agriculture or industry.
1980 Pakistan Devel. Rev. 19 95 After two decades of remarkably quick development, a turning point appeared, of which one of the earliest symptoms was the delinking of the dollar from gold.
2017 Namibian (Windhoek) (Nexis) 24 Apr. Delinking of the Namibia dollar from the South African rand now would increase the risk, instead of mitigating it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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