Definition of "decoupled" [decoupled]

• Simple past tense and past participle of decouple. (verb)

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• "It was not at all obvious that we were in an deflationary spiral until the effective funds became decoupled from the target rate, and that was not until late October when the spread became greater than 75 basis points – and stayed there until the fed just went ahead and dropped the target to zero, which was the end of possible action on the monetary policy front."
• "They kept this decoupled from the business of the nation."
• "I have a first generation iPhone which I have now decoupled from the AT&T network."