What is another word for intermediary?

Pronunciation: [ˌɪntəmˈiːdiːəɹi] (IPA)

Intermediary, also known as a go-between or middleman, refers to a person or company that acts as a mediator between two parties. Other synonyms for intermediary include intermediary agent, mediator, facilitator, broker, arbitrator, and negotiator. Each of these synonyms has slightly different connotations, such as a broker being someone who helps facilitate financial transactions, while an arbitrator is someone who helps settle legal disputes. However, overall, they describe a person or entity that helps facilitate communication and negotiations between two parties. Intermediaries are often used in business and legal settings, but can also be found in personal relationships, such as a couple seeking marriage counseling from a therapist.

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What are the opposite words for intermediary?

The term intermediary refers to a person who acts as a mediator between two parties or entities. While the term is often associated with neutrality and impartiality, there are several antonyms to the word. One of the main antonyms of intermediary is the word partisan, which refers to someone who takes a particular side in a dispute. Another antonym is extremist, which refers to someone who holds extreme views or opinions, often leading to polarisation of ideas. Lastly, the term antagonist represents those who are actively opposed to a particular cause or viewpoint, often causing strife and conflict. These antonyms provide a range of alternative perspectives and roles within interpersonal relationships and negotiations.

What are the antonyms for Intermediary?

  • n.

    person who negotiates

Usage examples for Intermediary

The presence of one or more intermediary versions, a complication especially noticeable in England as a result of the French occupation after the Conquest, may easily mislead us.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
Change the concept of the planet slightly, so that one thing cannot act upon another, no tool be used except this crystal set to act as intermediary.
"Eight Keys to Eden"
Mark Irvin Clifton
To the last question the polite Frenchman must have found it difficult to frame an answer at once courteous and true, but he promised to use his influence as intermediary with Henrietta, and he was so far successful that the young Queen was induced to regard the Duke, at any rate outwardly, with greater favour.
"Henrietta Maria"
Henrietta Haynes

Famous quotes with Intermediary

  • These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly guided by opinion polls.
    Jacques Delors
  • Not only is there no need of an intermediary through whom He would want you to speak to Him, but He finds His delight in having you treat with Him personally and in all confidence.
    Alphonsus Liguori
  • An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.
    Christopher Walken
  • Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I ask, if it matters, that you be forgiven for anything you may have done or failed to do which requires forgiveness. Conversely, if not forgiveness but something else may be required to insure any possible benefit for which you may be eligible after the destruction of your body, I ask that this, whatever it may be, be granted or withheld, as the case may be, in such a manner as to insure your receiving said benefit. I ask this in my capacity as your elected intermediary between yourself and that which may not be yourself, but which may have an interest in the matter of your receiving as much as it is possible for you to receive of this thing, and which may in some way be influenced by this ceremony. Amen.
    Roger Zelazny
  • The refractory pupil of Socrates, Aristippus the Cyrene, who believed happiness to be the sum of particular pleasures and golden moments and not, as Epicurus, a prolonged intermediary state between ecstasy and pain.
    Cyril Connolly

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