Meaning of peer-to-peer | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Able to conduct business without using a middleman.
   not-comparable
2. Connected as equal partners and able to share processing, control and access to data and peripherals; decentralized.
   not-comparable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

CEFR level