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disintermediation

disintermediation noun: the removal of funds from a financial institution such as a bank for direct purchase of financial instruments.

Noun

disintermediation (countable and uncountable, plural disintermediations)

  1. The removal of funds from a financial institution such as a bank for direct purchase of financial instruments.
    • Any disintermediation crisis, such as has occurred three times since 1966, causes mortgage money to dry up and slow down new housing construction which the country desperately needs.1974 July 18, “Disintermediation”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
  2. The removal of an intermediary from a commercial transaction.
    • The news industry is undergoing a massive disintermediation due to the ubiquitous low-cost communication made possible by the internet.
    • New-media thinkers, with their appetite for disintermediation and creative destruction, implicitly endorse and advance this transformation.2014, Astra Taylor, chapter 2, in The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN

disintermediation meaning in Tamil

disintermediation in Tamil

இடைநிலைஞர் தவிர்ப்பு, இடையீட்டார் நீக்கல்

Forms of disintermediation

pluraldisintermediations

Origin of disintermediation

From dis- + intermediation.

Questions about disintermediation

What does disintermediation mean?
Disintermediation means the removal of funds from a financial institution such as a bank for direct purchase of financial instruments.
What is disintermediation in Tamil?
Disintermediation in Tamil is இடைநிலைஞர் தவிர்ப்பு, இடையீட்டார் நீக்கல். See Disintermediation meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is disintermediation?
Disintermediation is a noun.
What is the plural of disintermediation?
The plural of disintermediation is disintermediations.

Words near disintermediation in the dictionary

  1. disintermediary
  2. disintermediate
  3. disintermediated
  4. disintermediates
  5. disintermediating
  6. disintermediation
  7. disintermediations
  8. disintermediator
  9. disintermediators
  10. disinterment
  11. disinterments

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Adapted from Wiktionary: disintermediation (page history and authors); disintermediation (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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