intermediation
- n the act of intervening for the purpose of bringing about a settlement
- Their health affects every sector of the economy, and there's now widespread, if not universal, agreement among economists that a breakdown of financial intermediation--a.
- That is the intermediation that the internet has offered.
- Ultimately, brokerages were an unstable hybrid of securities intermediation and leveraged speculation; it is safer, and makes more sense, to have highly leveraged speculation take .