peer-to-peer
adj1
Able to conduct business without using a middleman.
Of a social network of equal partners
- Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71:
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Of a network Connected as equal partners and able to share processing, control and access to data and peripherals; decentralized.
- With the peer-to-peer backup paradigm, each file is copied over to another peer in the system rather than to a central backup site.2004, Dinesh Verma, Legitimate Applications of Peer-to-Peer Networks, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 98:
- Derived terms
- peer-to-peer economy, peer-to-peer lending
- Related terms
- one-to-one