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verb

disintermediate

to remove intermediaries from a process, connecting producers directly with consumers

In a sentence

Six example sentences with disintermediate, each labelled with its topic.

  • Their whole pitch was to disintermediate the wholesaler, shipping crates from the farm gate to the restaurant kitchen overnight.

    Startups

  • Peer lending platforms disintermediate the bank, matching a saver in Leeds with a borrower in Bristol and taking a thin fee.

    Finance

  • Bandcamp let artists disintermediate the label entirely, so the money from a Tuesday download reaches the drummer by Friday.

    Music

  • The publisher's own ebook store tried to disintermediate retailers, selling straight to readers at a lower price.

    Business

  • Farmers' markets disintermediate the grocery chain, so the grower keeps the margin a distributor would take.

    Economics

  • Booking websites disintermediated the travel agent, and most high street agencies closed within a decade.

    Travel

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