0 someone who carries messages between people who are unwilling or unable to meet:
The police negotiated with the gunman through an intermediary.
The former president has agreed to act as an intermediary between the government and the rebels.
1 someone who acts to arrange an agreement between people who are unwilling or unable to communicate directly
2 a person or organization that makes business or financial arrangements between companies or organizations that do not deal with each other directly:
Global sourcing often creates additional intermediaries, such as foreign distributors, brokers, freight forwarders, and customs clearing agents.
act/serve as an intermediary between sb/sth and sb/sth Insurance brokers act as intermediaries between companies that are seeking insurance and companies that provide such coverage.
through/via an intermediary The bank has three million customers and provides loans via intermediaries such as high street stores.
I seek to determine what the intermediary movement between cultural policy and popular music has been like.
She becomes more than simply an intermediary, taking on some real responsibility for the words provided by the teacher.
The intermediary is not part of the initial distribution of endowments, but his technology allows costless transformation of any good in his consumption good.
Diagnosis and troubleshooting systems can acquire information regarding the system to be diagnosed directly from the device (on-line) or through human or electronic intermediaries (off-line).
Yet little attention is paid to the cost of derivative transactions other than the existence of intermediary expenses.
By the sixteenth century he had become an important intermediary between the two houses.
Individuals who fail to obtain production opportunities appoint intermediaries to write debt contracts with producers.
In some other localities, however, the age-abundance curve was peaked and maximum parasite abundance occurred in hosts of intermediary age.
