depackage

Verb

depackage (third-person singular simple present depackages, present participle depackaging, simple past and past participle depackaged)

1. To remove the packaging or casing from.
   • Even the tackiest products "depackage" cleanly, completely.1962, Package Engineering - Volume 7, page 31
   • Baader's separators perform a variety of food processing and recycling applications, including: depackages individually-wrapped cheese slices and butter pats, pet foods and pharmaceutical products from plastic tubs, wraps, or tubes; separates skins from apples, bananas, avocados or potatoes; and...1997, Food Production Management - Volumes 120-121, page 22
2. To separate into components; to unbundle.
   • Research is needed to identify and propose alternatives to structural disinventives, and to depackage currently turgid social programs.1979, Rick Cohen, Localism, Research Themes on Urban Smallness, page 35
   • The aim of these programmes is to generate enough expertise to 'depackage' imported technologies, such as solar and nuclear technologies, in a manner that would allow them to produce locally as many components as possible and import only those parts which are beyond their industrial and...1982, Ziauddin Sardar, Science and Technology in the Middle East, page 73