disintermediate
verbEtymology Back-formation from disintermediation.
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Banking, Business, Finance Ambitransitive To carry out disintermediation, to remove another from intermediation.
- 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.2001, Business Week, page 76:
- 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.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: