Definition of "uncouple" []

• To disconnect: uncouple railroad cars. (verb-transitive)
• To set loose or release from a couple. (verb-transitive)
• To come or break loose. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "We would fix the tax code to uncouple health insurance from employment and let people purchase their own mix of services and coverage."
• "If you uncouple the gun issue from other liberal/conservative squabbles you will find that respect for our firearms bearing heritage is way broader than other issues."
• "The [UnitedHealth] program is banking on the assumption that if we uncouple paying for drugs with paying for care that doctors will do what they do best, which is doctor."