intermediary

intermediary
    n 1: a negotiator who acts as a link between parties [syn:
         {mediator}, {go-between}, {intermediator}, {intermediary},
         {intercessor}]
    

Intermediary \In`ter*me"di*a*ry\, a. [Cf. F. interm['e]diaire.]
   Lying, coming, or done, between; intermediate; as, an
   intermediary project.
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   {Intermediary amputation} (Surg.), an amputation for injury,
      performed after inflammation has set in.
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Intermediary \In`ter*me"di*a*ry\, n.; pl. {Intermediaries}.
   One who, or that which, is intermediate; an interagent; a
   go-between; a mediator.
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148 Moby Thesaurus words for "intermediary":
      Charlie McCarthy, agency, agent, agential, agentival, agentive,
      amidships, ancilla, appliance, arbiter, arbitrational, arbitrative,
      arbitrator, assisting, average, banal, broker, center, central,
      channel, coming between, common, conducive, connection, contact,
      contrivance, core, creature, deputy, device, distributor, dummy,
      dupe, employable, entrepreneur, equatorial, equidistant,
      facilitating, favoring, forwarding, front, front man, go-between,
      going between, halfway, handmaid, handmaiden, handy, helpful,
      implement, instrument, instrumental, instrumentality, interagent,
      interceder, intercessional, intercessor, intercessory,
      intercurrent, interior, interjacent, interlocutory, intermedial,
      intermediate, intermediate agent, intermediator, intermediatory,
      intermedium, internuncio, interpleader, intervener, intervenient,
      intervening, interventional, interventionist, interventor, jobber,
      judge, lever, liaison, link, mean, mechanism, medial, median,
      mediary, mediating, mediative, mediator, mediatorial, mediatory,
      mediocre, mediterranean, medium, mesial, mesne, mezzo, mid, middle,
      middle-of-the-road, middleman, middlemost, middling, midland,
      midmost, midships, midway, midwife, minion, ministerial,
      ministering, ministry, moderate, mouthpiece, negotiant, negotiator,
      negotiatress, negotiatrix, normal, nuclear, ombudsman, ordinary,
      organ, pacificatory, pawn, plaything, promoting, puppet, referee,
      representative, routine, servant, serviceable, slave, spokesman,
      spokeswoman, standard, stooge, subservient, third party, tie, tool,
      toy, umpire, useful, usual, vehicle, wholesaler