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disintermediated

disintermediated is the simple past and past participle of disintermediate.

Meaning of disintermediate

Verb

disintermediate (third-person singular simple present disintermediates, present participle disintermediating, simple past and past participle disintermediated)

  1. (ambitransitive) 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.2001, Business Week, page 76

Questions about disintermediated

What is disintermediated the simple past and past participle of?
Disintermediated is the simple past and past participle of disintermediate.

Words near disintermediated in the dictionary

  1. disintering
  2. disinterlace
  3. disinterlaced
  4. disintermediary
  5. disintermediate
  6. disintermediated
  7. disintermediates
  8. disintermediating
  9. disintermediation
  10. disintermediations
  11. disintermediator

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Adapted from Wiktionary: disintermediated (page history and authors); disintermediate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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