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peer-to-peer

peer-to-peer adjective: able to conduct business without using a middleman.

Adjective

peer-to-peer (not comparable)

  1. Able to conduct business without using a middleman.
    • Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71
  2. Connected as equal partners and able to share processing, control and access to data and peripherals; decentralized.
    • With the peer-to-peer backup paradigm, each file is copied over to another peer in the system rather than to a central backup site.2004, Dinesh Verma, Legitimate Applications of Peer-to-Peer Networks, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 98
    Synonyms:
    P2P

peer-to-peer meaning in Arabic

peer-to-peer in Arabic

of a social network of equal partners able to conduct business without using a middleman
نِدّ لِنِد nidd linid
of a network of two or more computers connected as equal partners
نِدّ لِنِد nidd linid

Synonyms of peer-to-peer

Words formed from peer-to-peer

Phrases with peer-to-peer

Questions about peer-to-peer

What does peer-to-peer mean?
Peer-to-peer means able to conduct business without using a middleman.
What is peer-to-peer in Arabic?
Peer-to-peer in Arabic is نِدّ لِنِد (nidd linid). See Peer-to-peer meaning in Arabic.
What part of speech is peer-to-peer?
Peer-to-peer is an adjective.

Words near peer-to-peer in the dictionary

  1. peer-reviewed
  2. peer-reviewed journal
  3. peer-reviewed journals
  4. peer-reviewing
  5. peer-reviews
  6. peer-to-peer
  7. peer-to-peer economies
  8. peer-to-peer economy
  9. peer-to-peer lending
  10. peerage
  11. peerages

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