Liaison vs Intermediary - What's the difference?
liaison | intermediary |
Communication between two parties or groups.
Co-operation, working together.
A relayer of information between two forces in an army or during war.
A tryst, romantic meeting.
(figuratively) An illicit sexual relationship or affair.
(linguistics) The phonological fusion of two consecutive words and the manner in which this occurs, for example intrusion, consonant-vowel linking, etc. In the context of some languages, such as French, liaison can refer specifically to a normally silent final consonant, being pronounced when the next word begins with a vowel, and can often also include the intrusion of a "t" in certain fixed chunks of language such as the question form "pense-t-il ".
Intermediate.
An agent acting as a mediator between sides that may disagree.
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An arranger of a contract or other agreement who is separate from the parties to the agreement
One or several stages of an event which occurs after the start and before the end.
A person or organisation in an intermediate position in a supply chain of goods or services
As nouns the difference between liaison and intermediary
is that liaison is communication between two parties or groups while intermediary is an agent acting as a mediator between sides that may disagree.As a verb liaison
is to liaise.As an adjective intermediary is
intermediate.liaison
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(en noun)intermediary
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(intermediaries)- A Mr. Whymper, a solicitor living in Willingdon, had agreed to act as intermediary between Animal Farm and the outside world
- The intermediary between the manufacturer and retailer is the wholesaler