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Meaning mediate meaning

What does mediate mean?
Definitions in simple English

mediate Verb

— If you mediate, you resolve conflicts between people or to bring about a settlement between them.

mediate

— verb (= intercede) act between parties with a view to reconciling differences He interceded in the family dispute He mediated a settlement — adjective acting through or dependent on an intervening agency the disease spread by mediate as well as direct contact — verb occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others mediate between the old and the new — adjective (= in-between, middle) 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

Synonyms mediate synonyms

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mediate English » English

intercede intervene reconcile intermediate interpose arbitrate make peace middle intervening smooth reflect mediation liaise interfere indirect in-between harmonize consider connect conciliate compromise accommodate vicarious utter use as an intermediary transact trade think of take care of speak settle matter settle serve separate roundabout reconciliation propose ponder plan patch up parley negotiate match make peace between join intermediary interim inexplicit entertain engineer

Topics mediate topics

What do people use mediate to talk about?
Language and thought Want Request

Intercede
Social behavior Conflict Peace

Make peace

Conjugation mediate conjugation

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mediate · verb

Examples mediate examples

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Movie subtitles

Your little misfortune which no lapse of time can mediate.
We're happy to mediate in even the ugliest spousal disputes.
He says the magistrate is going to mediate between us.
Get rid of Lanzetta. I'll mediate peace with the Calabrian.
In his effort to mediate between Israel and Syria, US Secretary of State Kissinger has travelled the Middle East in vain.
Well, if that's the only reason, we can re-mediate that lack.
Since the expiry of the US ultimatum to the Soviet Union yesterday, there have been intense efforts to mediate between the two countries.
I am preparing to leave by shuttlecraft for Pentarus V where I've been asked to mediate a dispute among the salenite miners, a contentious group unfortunately, prone to violence.
That will be helpful in my efforts to mediate the quarrel.
The Alphan representative has agreed, however reluctantly, to let you mediate the dispute.
Our leaders were unable to mediate a peace.
I am to mediate a disagreement between two rival factions, the Paqu and the Navot.
I'm trying to get them to mediate. Keep it quiet.
Mediate?
Certainly, I'll have to leave this here, and mediate another nation wide strike.
I'll request permission to mediate for the Troglytes.
I'll mediate peace with the Calabrian.
Our families are linked, so I can't mediate.
Isn't there someone else you could ask to mediate?
According to local reports, the Western Alliance of Organizations is prepared to mediate the dispute.
It's not easy to mediate.
Still and all, sir, it just leaves me to wonder whether we don't have better things to do than to mediate with radicals who show absolutely no respect for our democratic values.
I don't understand. How can he mediate without his interpreters?
You're to remain and mediate.
Contact the South secretly, and request for them to mediate for the United States and us.
I'm going to ask Sir Kodan-in to mediate for truce between Toyotomi and Tokugawa.
Since Komori is my sworn brother, I'm planning to mediate, and I don'twantyou meddling.
He can mediate.
Kosh hired me to mediate a business deal.
I appreciate your willingness to mediate in this dispute, Delenn.
You need to mediate.
You were sent to mediate.
He wants to mediate?
Your feeble attempts to mediate have accomplished nothing.

News and current affairs

Such reform is essential if the international financial system is to mediate the sizeable resource transfers that will underpin the required changes in the structure of global demand.
We must mediate the severity of global warming, while simultaneously conserving the resilience of coral reefs.
By using its good offices to mediate conflicts in places like Northern Ireland, Morocco, and the Aegean Sea, the US has helped in shaping international order in ways that are beneficial to other nations.
But to prevent North Korea from realizing a fait accompli in its pursuit of nuclear weapons, China must do more than mediate between North Korea and the US, the role it has so far played.
US President Barack Obama, who has expressed deep concern about the overthrow of Morsi, is perhaps the only leader able to mediate in such a situation and work for a consensus solution that prevents a civil war.
Not so long ago, we were comforted by theorizing that floating exchange rates would mediate international adjustments in a timely and orderly way.
America should similarly promote an open international economy and commons (seas, space, Internet), mediate international disputes before they escalate, and develop international rules and institutions.
Europe, however, will not mediate over NMD; indeed, Europe is backpedaling from its earlier opposition to the scheme.
Indeed, papal diplomats not only knew about the plot against Hitler, but sought to mediate between the conspirators and the Allied Powers.
Culture, self-understanding, and language mediate whatever we identify as fundamental to a common human nature.
What is needed is a system in which the poor have a voice alongside the rich in the organizations (the IMF, WTO, World Bank, and UN) that mediate in world economics and international relations.
Natural systems also provide natural purification systems for air and water, supply pollinators for agriculture, mediate our climate, and recycle the elements upon which our life-support systems depend.
The government's emphasis on Turkey's secular state and Islamic tradition resonates deeply, and there is a strong feeling that Turkey can mediate between the West and the Islamic world.
Oman is keeping its distance from the situation, while Kuwait has attempted to mediate between Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
In recent years, Turkey tried to mediate between Israel and Syria, Israel and Hamas, opposing factions in Lebanon, and lately between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany.
None of the leading EU states' foreign ministers seems even to have made an attempt to mediate between Europe's two closest Mediterranean partners, Israel and Turkey.
New particles, called gluons, were found to mediate the strong force.
This year, as the American-led effort to mediate a Middle East peace settlement began to falter, Turkey took up the job of mediator in both the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the conflict between Syria and Israel.
And the determinant of that flexibility and ability to adapt lies in political institutions and their willingness to challenge interest groups, mediate social conflicts, and maintain the rule of law.
Turkey's attempt to mediate between the major Western powers and Iran concerning the Islamic Republic's uranium stockpile went unappreciated in the West; indeed, the United States scuttled the effort just as it seemed to be bearing fruit.

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