intermediary

English

Etymology

From French intermédiaire, adjusted to simulate a borrowing from Medieval Latin *intermediārius.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˈmiːdi.əɹi/, /ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˈmiːdjəɹi/, /ˌɪntə(ɹ)ˈmiːdʒəɹi/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɪn(t)ɚˈmidiˌɛɹi/

Adjective

intermediary (not comparable)

1. That intermediates.

   Synonym: in-between

Derived terms

• disintermediary
• infomediary
• intermediarily
• metamediary

Translations

Translations

Bulgarian: (please verify) посреднически (posredničeski) Catalan: intermediari French: intermédiaire (fr) German: intermediär (de) Hindi: मध्यस्थ (hi) m (madhyasth) Hungarian: közvetítő (hu) Spanish: intermediario (es), intermediador

Noun

intermediary (plural intermediaries)

1. An agent acting as a mediator between sides to facilitate agreement or cooperation.

   Synonyms: mediator, middleman, go-between, intercessor

   • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:

     A Mr. Whymper, a solicitor living in Willingdon, had agreed to act as intermediary between Animal Farm and the outside world […]

   • 2017 February 10, Rosie Gray, “Behind the Internet's Anti-Democracy Movement”, in The Atlantic‎, archived from the original on 10 January 2020:

     White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has been in contact via intermediaries with Curtis Yarvin, Politico Magazine reported this week.

2. A person or organisation in an intermediate position (in a transaction, agreement, supply chain, etc.)

   Synonyms: middleman, broker

   The intermediary between the manufacturer and retailer is the wholesaler

3. One or several stages of an event which occurs after the start and before the end.

Translations

an agent acting as a mediator between sides to facilitate agreement or cooperation — see also mediator

Armenian: միջնորդ (hy) (miǰnord) Belarusian: пасрэ́днік m (pasrédnik), пасрэ́дніца f (pasrédnica) Bulgarian: посре́дник (bg) m (posrédnik), посре́дница f (posrédnica), посре́дничка f (posrédnička), медиатор (bg) m (mediator) Chinese: Mandarin: 中介 (zh) (zhōngjiè), 仲介 (zh) (zhòngjiè) Czech: prostředník (cs) m, zprostředkovatel m, zprostředkovatelka f Danish: formidler c, mellemmand c Dutch: tussenpersoon (nl) m, bemiddelaar (nl) m Esperanto: peranto Finnish: välittäjä (fi), välimies (fi) French: intermédiaire (fr) m or f Fula: hakkundeejo Georgian: შუამავალი (šuamavali) German: Vermittler (de) m, Vermittlerin (de) f Greek: διαμεσολαβητής (el) m (diamesolavitís), μεσάζων (el) m (mesázon) Hebrew: מְתַוֵּךְ m (metavékh) Hindi: मध्यस्थ (hi) m (madhyasth) Hungarian: közvetítő (hu), közbenjáró (hu) Indonesian: perantara (id), penengah (id) Italian: intermediario (it) m, intermediaria (it) f, sensale (it) m or f Japanese: 仲介 (ja) (ちゅうかい, chūkai), 仲裁者 (ちゅうさいしゃ, chūsaisha) Kazakh: мәмілегер (mämıleger) Korean: 중재자(仲裁者) (jungjaeja) Latin: internuntius m, internuntia f Latvian: starpnieks m, videnieks m, vidutājs m Lithuanian: tarpininkas (lt) m Macedonian: посредник m (posrednik), посредничка f (posrednička) Malay: telangkai Norwegian: Bokmål: mellommann m, mellomledd n Nynorsk: mellommann m, mellomledd n Polish: pośrednik (pl) m, pośredniczka (pl) f Portuguese: intermediário (pt) m Romanian: intermediar (ro) m Russian: посре́дник (ru) m (posrédnik), посре́дница (ru) f (posrédnica) Scottish Gaelic: eadar-mheadhanair m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: по̀среднӣк m, по̀средница f Roman: pòsrednīk (sh) m, pòsrednica (sh) f Sicilian: sanzali m, ntirmidiaru m Slovak: prostredník m, prostredníčka f, sprostredkovateľ m, sprostredkovateľka f Slovene: posrednik m, posrednica f Spanish: intermediario (es) m, intermediaria (es) f Swahili: walanguzi (sw) Swedish: förmedlare (sv) c Turkish: aracı (tr) Ukrainian: посере́дник m (poserédnyk), посере́дниця f (poserédnycja)

person or organisation in an intermediate position

Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can Catalan: intermediari m German: Zwischenhändler (de) m, Zwischenhändlerin (de) f Indonesian: penengah (id)

one or several stages of an event which occurs after the start and before the end.

Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can