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metamediary

metamediary noun: a person or business that helps consumers obtain goods and services from suppliers within a metamarket, as well as offering services such as advice, financing, and so on.

Noun

metamediary (plural metamediaries)

  1. A person or business that helps consumers obtain goods and services from suppliers within a metamarket, as well as offering services such as advice, financing, and so on.
    • A new breed of intermediate institutions is emerging to inform and advise customers, and to simplify their dealings with product and service providers. These metamediaries dramatically improve the efficiency and effectiveness of transactions in the Networked Economy. Metamediaries also redraw the...2000 March 1, Mohandir Sawhney, “Making New Markets”, in Business 2.0
    • A metamediary provides a multivendor, multiproduct marketplace. The metamediary also provides multiple services—such as payment settlement, fulfillment, quality assurance, and procurement management. The use of a metamediary is likely if recovery of products is managed by a number of independent...2001, Mahendra Hundal, Mechanical Life Cycle Handbook, →ISBN

Forms of metamediary

pluralmetamediaries

Origin of metamediary

Blend of meta- + intermediary.

Questions about metamediary

What does metamediary mean?
Metamediary means a person or business that helps consumers obtain goods and services from suppliers within a metamarket, as well as offering services such as advice, financing, and so on.
What part of speech is metamediary?
Metamediary is a noun.
What is the plural of metamediary?
The plural of metamediary is metamediaries.

Words near metamediary in the dictionary

  1. metamatics
  2. metamedia
  3. metamedial
  4. metamediality
  5. metamediaries
  6. metamediary
  7. metamelanopsin
  8. metamemorial
  9. metamemory
  10. metamer
  11. metameral

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