Intermediary vs Mediate - What's the difference?
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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
To resolve differences, or to bring about a settlement, between conflicting parties.
To intervene between conflicting parties in order to resolve differences or bring about a settlement.
To divide into two equal parts.
To act as an intermediary causal or communicative agent; convey
Acting through a mediating agency.
* (Oliver Sacks)
Intermediate between extremes.
Gained or effected by a medium or condition.
* Sir W. Hamilton
Intermediary is a related term of mediate.
As adjectives the difference between intermediary and mediate
is that intermediary is intermediate while mediate is .As a noun intermediary
is an agent acting as a mediator between sides that may disagree.intermediary
English
Adjective
(head)Noun
(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
mediate
English
Verb
(mediat)- (Holder)
Adjective
- Vygotsky saw the development of language and mental powers as neither learned, in the ordinary way, nor emerging epigenetically, but as being social and mediate in nature, as arising from the interaction of adult and child, and as internalizing the cultural instrument of language for the processes of thought.
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- (Francis Bacon)
- An act of mediate knowledge is complex.