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- verb business, banking, finance To carry out
disintermediation .
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Examples
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Myhrvold was talking about how online technology would "disintermediate" commerce.
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One of the misconceptions of the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and broader cloud computing market is that these new Web-based services will "disintermediate" the channel because of their simpler, more user-friendly solutions, and direct sales and delivery business models.
E-Commerce Times 2009
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Hosts David Asman and Liz Claman practically crowned the mayor an economic genius after he told them he's asking for wage concessions from labor groups, combining departments and trying to "disintermediate" bureaucracies.
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One of the misconceptions of the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and broader cloud computing market is that these new Web-based services will "disintermediate" the channel because of their simpler, more user-friendly solutions, and direct sales and delivery business models.
E-Commerce Times 2009
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But there's fear that Google ultimately wants to have direct relationships with companies and "disintermediate" the agencies (along the lines of what Entelligence claims).
Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing 2008
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'disintermediate' commerce and to some extent they were right.
Techworld.com News 2009
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We've seen the Internet and digital natives flatten hierarchies, empower participants, disintermediate existing industry structures and processes.
Jonathan Askin: Occupy Wall Street as a Pivoting Startup: "Generation Why Not" in a "Yeah But" World Jonathan Askin 2011
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We've seen the Internet and digital natives flatten hierarchies, empower participants, disintermediate existing industry structures and processes.
Jonathan Askin: Occupy Wall Street as a Pivoting Startup: "Generation Why Not" in a "Yeah But" World Jonathan Askin 2011
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We've seen the Internet and digital natives flatten hierarchies, empower participants, disintermediate existing industry structures and processes.
Jonathan Askin: Occupy Wall Street as a Pivoting Startup: "Generation Why Not" in a "Yeah But" World Jonathan Askin 2011
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We've seen the Internet and digital natives flatten hierarchies, empower participants, disintermediate existing industry structures and processes.
Jonathan Askin: Occupy Wall Street as a Pivoting Startup: "Generation Why Not" in a "Yeah But" World Jonathan Askin 2011
russ_cooper commented on the word disintermediate
To be removed from being an intermediary in some process. For example, in the manufacturer to distributer to wholesaler to retailer to customer process, if the manufacture decides to sell direct to customers the wholesaler and retailer have been disintermediated.
September 13, 2009