0 someone who carries messages between people who are unwilling or unable to meet: --
The former president has agreed to act as an intermediary between the government and the rebels.
The police negotiated with the gunman through an intermediary.
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: --
through/via an intermediary The bank has three million customers and provides loans via intermediaries such as high street stores.
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.
Global sourcing often creates additional intermediaries, such as foreign distributors, brokers, freight forwarders, and customs clearing agents.
Having this in mind, recall that in the first stage the intermediaries decide on the level of monitoring services they want to provide.
In this conviction, secondary materials are considered no different from other intermediary or final goods.
Intermediary waste collection points were almost always covered, and the only operational rubbish tip was located offshore.
Probably those inns served as intermediaries when litigants were arranging for appeals to higher courts.
Its reformist zeal was most evident in the desire to abolish pre-capitalist modes of agricultural production symbolised by feudal intermediaries or zamindars.
This response, called metabolic rate depression, has been well studied in sessile intertidal invertebrates and involves some interesting modifications in intermediary metabolism.
In this latter example the curve is peaked and the maximum mean abundance occurs in hosts of intermediary age.
In some other localities, however, the age-abundance curve was peaked and maximum parasite abundance occurred in hosts of intermediary age.