intermediary

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French intermédiaire

Adjective

intermediary (not comparable)

1. intermediate

Translations

Translations

• German: intermediär (de)
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Noun

intermediary (plural intermediaries)

1. An agent acting as a mediator between sides that may disagree.
   • 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 […]

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

   The intermediary between the manufacturer and retailer is the wholesaler

Translations

an agent acting as a mediator between sides that may disagree

• Bulgarian: посредник (bg) m (posrednik)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 中介 (zh) (zhōngjiè), 仲介 (zh) (zhòngjiè)

• Czech: prostředník (cs) m, zprostředkovatel m
• Dutch: tussenpersoon (nl) m
• Esperanto: peranto
• Finnish: välittäjä (fi), välimies (fi)
• Fula: hakkundeejo
• German: Zwischenhändler (de) m
• Greek: διαμεσολαβητής (el) m (diamesolavitís), μεσάζων (el) m (mesázon)
• Hebrew: מְתַוֵּךְ m (metavékh)
• Latin: internuntius m, internuntia f
• Latvian: starpnieks m, videnieks m, vidutājs m
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• Lithuanian: tarpininkas (lt) m
• Macedonian: посредник m (posrednik)
• Malay: telangkai
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mellommann m, mellomledd n

  Nynorsk: mellommann m, mellomledd n

• Portuguese: intermediário (pt) m
• Romanian: intermediar (ro) m
• Russian: посре́дник (ru) m (posrédnik)
• Scottish Gaelic: eadar-mheadhanair m
• Serbo-Croatian: по̀среднӣк m, pòsrednīk (sh) m
• Spanish: intermediario (es)
• Swahili: walanguzi (sw)

an arranger of a contract or other agreement who is separate from the parties to the agreement.

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

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

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

a person or organisation in an intermediate position in a supply chain of goods or services.

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