mediate

Academic Word List, sublist 9.

About 2.74 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To resolve differences, or to bring about a settlement, between conflicting parties.

   Negotiators managed to mediate a ceasefire.

2. verb To intervene between conflicting parties in order to resolve differences or bring about a settlement.
3. verb To divide into two equal parts.
4. verb To act as an intermediary causal or communicative agent; to convey.
5. verb To act as a spiritualistic medium.
6. verb To communicate via media; to frame; to provide a cultural narrative about.
7. adjective Acting through a mediating agency, indirect.
8. adjective Intermediate between extremes.

Similar words

intercede arbitrate liaise indirect in-between intermediate middle negotiate mediation mediator

Often followed by

the between and a in or their this with

Word family

mediacies mediacy mediated mediately mediates mediating mediation mediative mediatory