disintermediate

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Etymology[edit]

Back-formation from disintermediation.

Verb[edit]

disintermediate (third-person singular simple present disintermediates, present participle disintermediating, simple past and past participle disintermediated)

  1. (business, banking, finance) To carry out disintermediation.
    • 2001, Business Week, page 76:
      High-profile ventures like Amazon.com, Dell, and E*Trade helped to hype the Internet as the means to disintermediate, or cut out the middlemen. The theory was that these indirect channels weren't necessary anymore.
    • 2019 August 20, Michael Rosenfeld, Reuben J. Thomas, Sonia Hausen, “Disintermediating your friends: How Online Dating in the United States displaces other ways of meeting”, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, volume 116, number 36, →DOI:
      The rise of the Internet has allowed individuals in the dating market to disintermediate their friends, i.e. to meet romantic partners without the personal intermediation of their friends and family.

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