Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of intermediating, or the state of being intermediate; intervention; interposition; intermediacy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of coming between; intervention; mediation; interposition.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun countable An act of coming between; an
intervention . - noun uncountable
Intervention ;interposition .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of intervening for the purpose of bringing about a settlement
Etymologies
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Examples
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Since the word "intermediation" means that a company accepts deposits and then lends them to others, that fancy word in the strategy simply states the obvious: It's a bank.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed HARVEY SCHACHTER 2011
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Since the word "intermediation" means that a company accepts deposits and then lends them to others, that fancy word in the strategy simply states the obvious: It's a bank.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed HARVEY SCHACHTER 2011
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That the brave new world has all-of-the-above kind of people in't, communicating as peers rather than through hierarchy and intermediation, is in most ways cause for celebration.
Archive 2007-04-01 Roger Sutton 2007
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That the brave new world has all-of-the-above kind of people in't, communicating as peers rather than through hierarchy and intermediation, is in most ways cause for celebration.
This is why I don't have a blogroll. Or friends. Roger Sutton 2007
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It limits them to their legitimate purpose, namely intermediation as opposed to gambling.
Laurence J. Kotlikoff: Mervyn King Has It Right -- Our Financial System Is the Worst Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2010
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It limits them to their legitimate purpose, namely intermediation as opposed to gambling.
Laurence J. Kotlikoff: Mervyn King Has It Right -- Our Financial System Is the Worst Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2010
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He knows that an inverted yield curve severely and nearly instantly renders unprofitable most financial intermediation, which is the process of "borrowing short to lend long."
Forbes.com: News Richard M. Salsman 2011
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It limits them to their legitimate purpose, namely intermediation as opposed to gambling.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Laurence J. Kotlikoff 2010
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And then generally, we and all remaining commercial banks to survive are going to face a really positive 20 years of re-intermediation as we move from 35 years of dis-intermediation of commercial banking balance sheet out into these capital markets, we are getting ready to go through 15 years of re-intermediation, which is going to be a phenomenal opportunity.
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This allows the US to act as banker to the world, skimming off an "intermediation" fee that allows positive returns on portfolio maturity and quality composition.
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