unmanage

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ manage.

Verb

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unmanage (third-person singular simple present unmanages, present participle unmanaging, simple past and past participle unmanaged)

  1. (transitive, computing) To cease to manage; to relinquish ownership or control of.
    • 1994, David Flanagan, Motif tools: streamlined GUI design and programming with the Xmt library:
      Since the XmDialogShell is not used here, managing and unmanaging the child of the shell will have no effect on whether the shell window itself is visible.
    • 2014, Ilya Krutov, Carl Gola, Jeff Schoby, Implementing Systems Management of IBM PureFlex System, page 143:
      The web interface enables you to unmanage a chassis, and re-manage the chassis in centralized user management mode. However, unmanaging a chassis deletes all of the chassis settings []