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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
intermediary
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
financial
▪ What is more, financial intermediaries may have the expertise to be able to assess just how risky a loan is.
▪ Failure to address these issues will destroy its credibility among financial intermediaries.
▪ Why are financial intermediaries required in an economy?
▪ It is where surplus and deficit units are brought together; many of such units are financial intermediaries.
▪ They are jointly known as financial intermediaries.
▪ As financial intermediaries these institutions provide four important services.
▪ This can not be an exhaustive list since, like other financial intermediaries, insurance companies are continually developing new products.
▪ This process whereby financial intermediaries lend for longer periods of time than they borrow is known as maturity transformation.
other
▪ As with other intermediaries, the nature of these liabilities influences the composition of the asset portfolio.
▪ This can not be an exhaustive list since, like other financial intermediaries, insurance companies are continually developing new products.
■ VERB
act
▪ The key to avoiding what its rivals did, says Eat OnLine, is that it just acts as an intermediary.
▪ A particularly important role for the father is to act as an intermediary with the outside world.
▪ Oddly enough, it was the United States that acted as an important intermediary in these arguments.
▪ They paid for individuals who could act as coordinators and intermediaries between school systems and businesses.
▪ The petro-dollar recycling resulted in banks acting as international intermediaries between the surplus and deficit units.
▪ C., said Monday that they knew nothing about Weaver, Gritz or McLamb acting as intermediaries.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Switzerland's foreign minister served as an intermediary between the two countries.
▪ The King responded to the questions through an intermediary.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intermediary

Intermediary \In`ter*me"di*a*ry\, a. [Cf. F. interm['e]diaire.] Lying, coming, or done, between; intermediate; as, an intermediary project.

Intermediary amputation (Surg.), an amputation for injury, performed after inflammation has set in.

Intermediary

Intermediary \In`ter*me"di*a*ry\, n.; pl. Intermediaries. One who, or that which, is intermediate; an interagent; a go-between; a mediator.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
intermediary

1788 (adj.); 1791 (n.), from French intermédiaire (17c.), from Medieval Latin intermedium, from Latin intermedius (see intermediate).

Wiktionary
intermediary

a. intermediate. n. 1 An agent acting as a mediator between sides that may disagree. 2 An arranger of a contract or other agreement who is separate from the parties to the agreement 3 One or several stages of an event which occurs after the start and before the end. 4 A person or organisation in an intermediate position in a supply chain of goods or services

WordNet
intermediary

n. a negotiator who acts as a link between parties [syn: mediator, go-between, intermediator, intercessor]

Wikipedia
Intermediary

An intermediary (or go-between) is a third party that offers intermediation services between two parties.

Intermediary (publisher)
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Usage examples of "intermediary".

According to the theory of the prosecution, Auguste believed that he had paid that money to Lebret through the intermediary of Castaing, and not to Castaing himself.

By this time, French scholars believe, Lybico-Berber peoples -- whether the old Garamantes or the Tuareg of the desert or other intermediaries and traders -had already taken it southward.

Philo, and the Alohayim, Forces or Superior Gods of the ancient legend with which Genesis begins,--to these and other intermediaries the creation was owing.

Genii intermediaries between Gods and men, the Universal Providence, 416-u.

Intermediary powers between Gods and men accorded to Genii or angels, 416-m.

Born on a farm outside Nagasaki in the province of Hizen on the South Island, and when she was five, she was invited into the Floating World by one of the many women intermediaries who travelled the country seeking children who could become possible geisha, art persons, those who would be trained, like Koiko, in the arts and not purely as an netsujo-jin, a person for passion.

If our perception is to depend upon previous impressions made upon the air, then we have no direct knowledge of the object of vision, but know it only as through an intermediary, in the same way as we are aware of warmth where it is not the distant fire itself that warms us, but the warmed intervening air.

He chose Mallikan as intermediary because he knew that the shipping man would recognize the name Xerxes, once all the ribbons were in his possession, ready to be shifted about until they formed the right combination.

Like the mariners of Oman and the merchants of Sirat, far to the east, these people of Saharan Tagedda were powerful intermediaries in trade between North Africa and continental Africa.

The ease with which spirits assume control of the psychic intermediary, Mrs.

It may be asked why advanced intelligences do not take charge of earthbound spirits and convert them without having them first control a psychic intermediary.

My wife is a psychic intermediary, and allows spirits like yourself to control her body that they may be helped.

Through intermediaries, we granted a commission to an Israeli sculptor by the name of Zif, Amos Zif.

And he found itjoy without intermediary, a jolt of endorphins without side effects.

She got in touch with her counterpart through an intermediary, explained the situation, and managed to save the buffalo and the carnivores while giving up the gazelles and the antelope.