Peer-to-peer

Adjective

1. Of a social network of equal partners able to conduct business without using a middle man.
• 2013-06-01, End of the peer show, 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.
2. (computing) Of a network of two or more computers connected as equal partners and able to share processing, control and access to data and peripherals.

Derived terms

• peer-to-peer economy
• peer-to-peer lending

Related terms

• P2P