disintermediation
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.65 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
7
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The removal of funds from a financial institution such as a bank for direct purchase of financial instruments.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "The logic of disintermediation seems self-evident: By putting factories directly in contact with stores, by helping customers order directly from manufacturers, by letting riders coordinate with drivers, you cut out a needless source of waste and inefficiency."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ ▲ Proto-Indo-European *trísinflu. Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Old French des-bor. ▲ Latin dis-bor. Middle English dis- English dis- English intermediate Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ion English intermediation English disintermediation From dis- + intermediation.