MEDIATE

• (verb) act between parties with a view to reconciling differences

  "He interceded in the family dispute", "He mediated a settlement"

  synonyms : arbitrate , intercede , intermediate , liaise

• (verb) occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others

  "mediate between the old and the new"

  The manager mediated between the old staff member and the new recruit. -added by naila_inlas

• (adj.) acting through or dependent on an intervening agency

  "the disease spread by mediate as well as direct contact"

• (adj.) 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 : in-between , middle

  She found herself in a mediate position of ranking in the class. -added by naila_inlas

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