peer-to-peer

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peer-to-peer

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not comparable, of a social network of equal partners 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.
not comparable, of a network 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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adj of a social network of equal partners able to conduct business without using a middleman

Italiano	senza intermediari
العربية	نِدّ لِنِد nidd linid

adj of a network of two or more computers connected as equal partners

Ελληνικά	διομότιμος diomótimos, ομότιμος omótimos
Русский	пи́ринговый píringovyj, децентрализо́ванный decentralizóvannyj, однора́нговый odnorángovyj
العربية	نِدّ لِنِد nidd linid

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@misc{peer_to_peer_2026,
  title = {peer-to-peer},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/peer-to-peer},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}