What does peer-to-peer mean?
Peer-to-peer means (of a social network of equal partners) Able to conduct business without using a middleman..
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(of a social network of equal partners) Able to conduct business without using a middleman..
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.
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.
Use peer-to-peer when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Peer-to-peer means (of a social network of equal partners) Able to conduct business without using a middleman..
Common synonyms include P2P.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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