disaggregate
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
verb
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to separate from a group or mass
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to divide into parts
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Etymology
Origin of disaggregate
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A new U.S. accounting standard approved in 2024 will require companies to disaggregate quarterly expenses into five specific categories, including depreciation, amortization of intangible assets, and employee compensation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
One reason is the deals weren’t just about trade, but also national security and other matters that make them harder to disaggregate.
From Barron's ● Dec. 14, 2025
The express result of all of that machine learning, of course, is the ability to disaggregate and isolate a particular sound pattern as precise as Ringo's snare drum on a 56-year-old recording.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2022
“They need to disaggregate this, take the individual elements and own them, claim them and brag about them. And as people start seeing and feeling them, they need to take credit for it.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 6, 2021
You disaggregate everything and tear it apart, but you are never able to synthesize the whole.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
One key area of reorganization was Uber's delivery business, which Khosrowshahi said would see restaurant, retail and direct delivery units consolidated into teams disaggregated at the global, regional and country level.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
Racine students, not disaggregated by length of participation, gained 1.85 years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
The policy, announced in August, requires schools to submit disaggregated data on gender, race, grade-point averages and test scores of applicants, admitted students and enrolled students by March 18.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026
“The bag fee and the seat-selection fee and all those other disaggregated fees are really something that the airlines can showcase to investors, saying, ‘Look how much money we’re making.’
From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2025
Studies of racial profiling typically report the total number of people stopped and searched, disaggregated by race.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
Critics of that theory have long argued that humans are a product of both genes and environment, and that disaggregating the two is impossible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
With “Now and Then,” their efforts came up trumps, disaggregating Lennon’s vocal in splendid isolation.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2023
This delta between $1,000 and $35 translates to a substantial amount of money saved, and it started by disaggregating everything.
From The Verge ● Aug. 9, 2022
He approves of the recently passed Every Student Succeeds Act, which makes states primarily responsible for holding schools accountable for serving all students, and for testing students yearly and disaggregating the results.
From US News ● Jan. 19, 2016
A dangerously near approach to Jupiter in 1841 is believed to have occasioned their disruption, and the disaggregating process thus started was likely to continue.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
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