intermediation

1. 1.

   the act of intervening for the purpose of bringing about a settlement

   Synonymsmediation

   Broaderintervention

   Narrowermatchmaking

Other forms of intermediation

plural

intermediations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about intermediation

What does intermediation mean?

intermediation means "the act of intervening for the purpose of bringing about a settlement".

How many syllables are in intermediation?

intermediation has 7 syllables: in-ter-me-di-a-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for intermediation?

Close synonyms include mediation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is intermediation a common word?

intermediation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.