Crossword clues for mediate
mediate
- Help resolve a dispute
- Doctor swallowed tablet first, then consumed umpire
- Think temperature’s dropped, so intervene
- Be a go-between
- Propose a compromise
- Oversee negotiations
- Act the peacemaker
- Try to make peace
- Help to settle
- Act as arbitrator
- Serve as a referee
- Reconcile (opposing forces)
- Help people in a dispute reach an agreement
- Finish the beef?
- Facilitate a compromise, perhaps
- Act to settle
- Act the go-between
- Act in a labor crisis
- Act between parties to reconcile differences
- Reconcile differences
- Settle, in a way
- Referee
- Umpire
- Help settle disputes
- Talk to two 2-Down, say
- Do some work between parties
- Interpose
- Make peace
- Conduct arbitration
- Settle disputes
- Act as an agent
- Consider taking some time to broker peace
- Consider giving up a bit of territory to bring about agreement
- Act as go-between
- Act as go-between in a dispute
- Reflect - not the first time - and intervene
- Intervene without delay? I’m off!
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mediate \Me"di*ate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Mediated; p. pr. & vb. n. Mediating.] [LL. mediatus, p. p. of mediare to mediate. See Mediate, a.]
To be in the middle, or between two; to intervene. [R.]
To interpose between parties, as the equal friend of each, esp. for the purpose of effecting a reconciliation or agreement; as, to mediate between nations.
Mediate \Me"di*ate\, v. t.
To effect by mediation or interposition; to bring about as a mediator, instrument, or means; as, to mediate a peace.
To divide into two equal parts. [R.]
--Holder.
Mediate \Me"di*ate\, a. [L. mediatus, p. p. of mediare, v. t., to halve, v. i., to be in the middle. See Mid, and cf. Moiety.]
Being between the two extremes; middle; interposed; intervening; intermediate.
--Prior.Acting by means, or by an intervening cause or instrument; not direct or immediate; acting or suffering through an intervening agent or condition.
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Gained or effected by a medium or condition.
--Bacon.An act of mediate knowledge is complex.
--Sir W. Hamilton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
1 Acting through a mediating agency. 2 intermediate between extremes. 3 Gained or effected by a medium or condition. v
1 (context transitive English) To resolve differences, or to bring about a settlement, between conflicting parties. 2 (context intransitive English) To intervene between conflicting parties in order to resolve differences or bring about a settlement. 3 To divide into two equal parts. 4 To act as an intermediary causal or communicative agent; convey
WordNet
adj. acting through or dependent on an intervening agency; "the disease spread by mediate as well as direct contact" [ant: immediate]
being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series; "adolescence is an awkward in-between age"; "in a mediate position"; "the middle point on a line" [syn: in-between, middle]
v. act between parties with a view to reconciling differences; "He interceded in the family dispute"; "He mediated a settlement" [syn: intercede, intermediate, liaise, arbitrate]
occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others; "mediate between the old and the new"
Wikipedia
Mediate may refer to:
- "Mediate" (song), by INXS
- Domenic Mediate, professional soccer player
- Rocco Mediate, professional golfer
- A common misspelling of the website Mediaite
Usage examples of "mediate".
Royalist critics on the Right charged that his mediating, unifying role as National Guard commander was hopelessly undercut by his advocacy of natural rights and his tolerance of popular movements that could lead only to social disintegration.
I had occasionally found myself wondering when the Amalgamation would ask something more of me than Mediating, something along the lines of what other empaths had been asked to do.
True, in what I actually do in the laboratory, I am trapped in an artefactual world mediated by machinery.
Geotropism seems also to be mediated by auxins, but how the distribution of auxins can be affected by gravity is not yet understood.
They buried their own dead where they could, except for one, a Remade woman famous for mediating during The Idiocy, long before.
Rod suffered through innumerable dinner parties, mediated arguments between scientists and crew, and fended off attempts by Dr.
If you would like your dispute mediated based on Christian biblical principles of conflict resolution, you may want to contact the Institute for Christian Conciliation, a national group with members and affiliated organizations around the country.
Most disputes are mediated voluntarily, after both sides agree to give it a try.
Lafayette as he encouraged creative projects, mediated personal relationships, and rendered practical, personal services.
If you are mediating because of a contractual provision or court order, you can argue that the other side has not mediated in good faith because it failed to send someone with the authority to reach an agreement.
If you are mediating in a court-sponsored program and the mediator has power to make a recommendation regarding child custody and visitation, this becomes all the more important.
Or, if you are a homeowner mediating against a contractor, a contractor mediator may be suspect in your eyes.
For example, disputes between roommates may be a common occurrence in a college town, and centers in rural areas may specialize in mediating disputes between farmers and food storage companies or bankers, as well as disputes between mobile home park owners and tenants.
If they are able to continue mediating these kinds of cases successfully for more than a few months without burning out, they probably have developed pretty good mediation skills.
In nearly all cases, however, mediating is far less expensive than going to court.