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動詞

disintermediate (三人称単数 現在形 disintermediates, 現在分詞 disintermediating, 過去形および過去分詞形 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:10.1073/pnas.1908630116:

     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.