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(ambitransitive, business, banking, finance) 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.
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.
Use disintermediate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Disintermediate means (ambitransitive, business, banking, finance) To carry out disintermediation, to remove another from intermediation..
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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.
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