peer-to-peer
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3ADJ.
close
PEER-TO-PEER + NOUN
backup, paradigm
PREP.
with
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adj
Able to conduct business without using a middleman.
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.
Connected as equal partners and able to share processing, control and access to data and peripherals; decentralized.
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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2Finance 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
WiktionaryWith 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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