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.”

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