Meaning: The trait of behaving in an obscene manner. Classified under: Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects. Synonyms: bawdiness; lewdness; obscenity; salaciousness; salacity. Hypernyms (lewdness is a kind of...): indecency (the quality of being indecent) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of lewdness):
What is a 'Financial Intermediary'. A financial intermediary is an entity that acts as the middleman between two parties in a financial transaction, such as a commercial bank, investment banks, mutual funds and pension funds.
2) An intermediary is a program or set of programs that in some way evaluates, filters, modifies, or otherwise interjects some function between two end users or end-use programs (such as a client/server).An example is the proxy server that most companies place between their internal Web users and the public Internet.n the World Wide Web, the role of an intermediary is sometimes said to be no longer necessary as, for example, when you look up legal or medical information directly yourself or when you share files with other Internet users directly (see peer-to-peer).