Intermediary

Definition: Intermediary

Intermediary

Noun

1. A negotiator who acts as a link between parties.

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Date "intermediary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1686. (references)

Business

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Synonyms: Intermediary

Interposition

Intermediary, intermedium; go between, bodkin, intruder, interloper; parenthesis, episode, flyleaf.

Adjective: interjacent, intercurrent, intervenient, intervening; Verb:, intermediate, intermediary, intercalary,Adjective: interjacent, intercurrent, intervenient, intervening; Verb:, intermediate, intermediary, intercalary, interstitial; embolismal.

Crosswords: Intermediary

Books

• Bring Me the Ocean: Nature As Teacher, Messenger, and Intermediary (reference)

• Changing Role of the Independent Intermediary [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• English influences in Dutch literature and Justus van Effen as intermediary; an aspect of eighteenth century achievement (reference)

• Hans Krebs: Architect of Intermediary Metabolism, 1933-1937 (reference)

• Intermediary Metabolism (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Figure 17. Challenger model of the Buchanan bottle, devised by the chemist of the expedition, John Buchanan, to sample intermediary layer waters. Left: descending. Middle: closing. Right: ascending. This type of bottle was used during the course of the voyage, from 1872 to 1876. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

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The notification referred to in the present Article shall be made either directly or through the intermediary of another Power. (reference)

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Health

These observations led Simond to suspect that the flea might be an intermediary factor in the transmission of plague since people acquired plague only if they were in contact with recently dead rats and were not affected if they touched rats that were dead for more than 24 hours. (references)

Business

A large portion (63 percent) of software is sold without any intermediary. (references)

Independent travel, without the intermediary of travel agencies, continues to be the predominate way that Czechs travel on holiday. (references)

As well as supplying directly, the trend for automobile components to be produced ready assembled into modules, means that some security equipment manufacturers deliver to their OEM customers via an intermediary component producer. (references)

Economic History

Croatia

Wholesalers operate as a distribution intermediary to retailers. (references)

Jordan

The agent's connection to the foreign company must be direct, without a sub-agent or intermediary. (references)

Ukraine

A strong distribution system and a viable intermediary service industry are only developing in Ukraine. (references)

Trade

Norway

However, a foreign company must go through a local agent or other intermediary with the application. (references)

Colombia

Eximbank's programs include direct loans, commercial lender working capital, loan guarantees, and intermediary loans. (references)

France

Import and export transactions exceeding FRF 250,000 in value must be conducted through an approved banking intermediary. (references)

Travel

Korea

For Koreans, relationships are all important; "cold calls" don't work -- introductions are crucial! Koreans want to do business with people with whom they have formed a personal connection or whereby a mutual intermediary has made an introduction. (references)

Women

Iceland

It is also illegal to act as an intermediary in the sale or procurement of sex. (references)

South Africa

The Government also has designated waiting rooms for victims, established counseling, installed more than 2,000 intermediary facilities at courts, and provided training of judicial officers. (references)

Worker Rights

Peru

In May a Peruvian intermediary contracted three men to work as mechanics in Abu Dhabi. (references)

Dominican Republic

The law also prohibits acting as an intermediary in a transaction of prostitution, and the Government has used this law to prosecute third parties that derive profit from prostitution. (references)

Cameroon

The intermediary paid parents an average of $8 (6,000 CFA francs) before taking the child, transporting the child to the city where the intermediary would subject the child to forced work for remuneration, which was far below the minimum wage level. (references)

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Expressions using "intermediary": Intermediary amputation ♦ through intermediary. Additional references.

Ending with "intermediary": user-intermediary.

Albanian

ndërmjetës (come between, go between, in between, intercessor, intermediator, mediate, mediator, middleman, moderator, negotiator, procurer, procuress, promotion-man). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متوسط (age, average, central, intermediate, mean, medial, median, mediocre, medium, middle, middling, moderate, ordinary, pass, poorly), ‏وسيلة (appliance, connection, connexion, contrivance, device, engine, expedience, expediency, expedient, facility, in a way, instrument, instrumentation, makeshift, mean, measure, modality, resource, string, tactic, twist), ‏وسيط (arbiter, broker, go between, interface, mediator, middle, pander, speculator), ‏واقع في الوسط, ‏واسطة (agency, instrumentation). (various references)

Bulgarian 

среден (average, indifferent, intermediate, mean, medial, median, medium, mesial, mid, middle, middlemost, middle-of-the-road, middling, moderate, neutral, run of the mill), нещо междинно (intermediate, medium), междинен (intercurrent, intermediate, medial, median, mediate, medium, osculant, transitional), посреднически (intercessory, intermediate, mediatorial, mediatory), посредник (agent, ambassador, banian, banyan, broker, factor, go between, intercessor, mediator, middleman, moderator, negotiant, negotiator, umpire). (various references)

Chinese 

媒 (go-between, matchmaker, medium), 中介 (Intermediaries). (various references)

Czech

zprostředkující (mediate), zprostředkovatel (agent, broker, middleman, moderator), prostředník (go between, in between, intermediator, link, mediator, middle finger, middleman, vehicle). (various references)

Danish

intermediær, intermediær, mellemmand (go-between, middleman, runner), mellemliggende, formidler (broker, steerer). (various references)

Dutch

intermediair (agent). (various references)

Farsi 

میانجی (Conciliator, Gobetween, Intermediate, Mediator, Medium, Midway), مداخله کننده (Intermediate), مداخله (Intermediation, Intervention), وساطت کننده , وساطت (Agency, Intercession). (various references)

Finnish

välikäsi (go-between). (various references)

French

intermédiaire (interface, intermediate). (various references)

German

vermittler (agent, arbitrator, broker, go between, honest broker, mediator, mediators, negotiator, procurer), dazwischenliegend (intervening). (various references)

Greek 

μεσάζων (middleman). (various references)

Hebrew 

מתוך (agent, arbitrator, broker, from, go between, mediator, medium, middleman, of, out of), שתדלן (interceder, lobbyist, mediator, pleader), איש בינים (medium, middleman). (various references)

Hungarian

közvetítõ (broadcaster, come between, corespondent, go between, in between, intercessory, intermediate, intermediator, mediator, mediatory, middleman, moderator, negotiator), közvetítő (agent, go-between, interferer, mediator, middle, transmitter), közbenső (intermediate). (various references)

Indonesian

perantaraan (intercession, mediation), perantara (agent, go between, mediator, medium). (various references)

Italian

intermedio (intermediate, mean, middle), mediatore (broker, mediator, middleman), intermediario (broker, go between, middleman). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

媒介 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

なかつぎ (agency, brokerage, relay), ばいかい, つて (connection, connections, go-between, good offices, influence, introducer, someone to trust), あっせんしゃ (mediator), ちゅうかいぶつ (channel, medium). (various references)

Korean 

중개인 (broker, Intermediaries). (various references)

Manx

eddyr-ghoaillee (buffer), eddyr-ghoaillagh. (various references)

Norwegian

mellommann. (various references)

Pig Latin

intermediaryay.(various references)

Portuguese

intermediário (agent, broker, go-between, interjacent, intermediate, intermediator, jobber, mean, medial, middle, middleman, salesman). (various references)

Romanian

intermediar (agent, factor, go between, interjacent, intermediate, intermedium, mediate, mediator, medium, middleman, negotiator, neutral, salesman, wangler), mijlocitor (go between, interceder, intercessor, intermediate, mediator, medium, moderator, negotiator, pander, procurer). (various references)

Russian 

посреднический (mediatorial, mediatory), посредник посреднический. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

posrednik (agent, daysman, go between, intercessor, intermediate, intermediator, mediator, medium, middle man, middleman, moderator, pander, paraclete, solicitor, umpire), posredan (indirect, interfering, mediate, oblique). (various references)

Spanish

intermediario (banyan, come between, go between, intermediate, jobber, mediatorial, mediatory, middleman), intermedio (halfway, in between, interim, interlude, intermediate, intermedium, interval, intervening, mediate, medium, middle). (various references)

Swedish

som uppträder som mellanhand, mellanliggande (intermediate), mellanhand (entrepreneur, go between, go-between, intermediator, jobber, middleman), medlare (arbitrator, conciliator, mediator, moderator), förmedlare (negotiator), förmedlande. (various references)

Turkish

orta (bosom, c, center, central, centre, fair, in between, intermediate, mean, medial, median, mediate, mediocre, medium, mesial, mesne, meso-, mezzo-, mid, mid-, middle, middling, midst, moderate, passable, secondary), aracı (go between, in between, interceder, intercessor, intermediate, jobber, mediator, mediatrix, middleman), arabuluculuk eden, arabulucu (agent, conciliator, go between, intercessor, mediator, mediatrix, negotiator, pacifier, peacemaker), ara (break, breather, breathing space, bye-, cessation, chasm, check, discontinuance, discontinuation, discontinuity, distance, gap, interim, interlocutory, interlude, intermediate, intermission, interregnum, interruption, Interspace, interval, lull, mediate, meso-, recess, recessional, recreation, respite, secondary, space, spacing, spread, stand down, surcease, time lag, time out, truce, 'tween). (various references)

Turkmen 

araзy. (various references)

Ukrainian

проміжна стадія, проміжний (in between, interim, interstitial, mediate, neuter, neutral, osculant, transitional, transitive), посередницький (intercessory, mediatorial, mediatory), посередництво (agency, intercession, intervention, mediation), посередник (agent, ambassador, broker, come between, daysman, fixer, go between, in between, intercessor, intermediate, intermedium, mediator, middleman, moderator, negotiator, second hand, stakeholder, stickler, umpire). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vật trung gian hình thức trung gian, người làm trung gian (intermediator), người hoà giải vật ở giữa, giai đoạn trung gian phương tiện, ở giữa trung gian, đóng vai trò hoà giải. (various references)

mediator, mediatorem. (various references)

Misspellings

"Intermediary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: intermediar, intermediare. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: dynamiter, irredenta, irridenta, itinerary, remainder, retrained.

-4 letters: antimere, daintier, dairymen, dementia, detainer, diameter, diriment, dreamier, dynamite, inertiae, interred, martyred, meridian, redreamt, remained, reminder, reminted, reremind, retained, retainer, trendier, tyramine.

-5 letters: admirer, airtime, amender, amenity, amidine, aminity, antired, anytime, arenite, aridity, daytime, deanery, demerit, denarii, dernier, detrain, diamine, dietary, dimeter, dirtier, drainer, draymen, dreamer.

+5 letters: dihydroergotamine.