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Intervene vs Intermediary - What's the difference?

intervene | intermediary |

As a verb intervene

is (ambitransitive) to come between, or to be between, persons or things.

As an adjective intermediary is

intermediate.

As a noun intermediary is

an agent acting as a mediator between sides that may disagree.

intervene

English

Verb

  • (ambitransitive) To come between, or to be between, persons or things.
    • The Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.
  • * De Quincey
    • self-sown woodlands of birch, alder, etc., intervening the different estates
  • To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events; as, an instant intervened between the flash and the report; nothing intervened (i.e. between the intention and the execution) to prevent the undertaking.
  • To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel; get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action
  • (legal) In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter.
    • (Abbott)

    Related terms

    * intervention

    intermediary

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Intermediate.

    • Noun

    (intermediaries)
  • An agent acting as a mediator between sides that may disagree.
  • *
    • A Mr. Whymper, a solicitor living in Willingdon, had agreed to act as intermediary between Animal Farm and the outside world
  • 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
    • The intermediary between the manufacturer and retailer is the wholesaler