intermediary

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: in=ter=me=di=ar=y
• COUNT in NET: 3 in 3 verses (in NT : 3 in 3 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

intermediary, a. [Cf. F. intermédiaire.].

 Lying, coming, or done, between; intermediate; as, an intermediary project.  [1913 Webster]

Intermediary amputation (Surg.), an amputation for injury, performed after inflammation has set in.

intermediary, n. 

 One who, or that which, is intermediate; an interagent; a go-between; a mediator.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

intermediary, n. & adj.
--n. (pl. -ies) an intermediate person or thing, esp. a mediator.
--adj. acting as mediator; intermediate.

Etymology

F interm{eacute}diaire f. It. intermediario f. L intermedius (as INTERMEDIATE)

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

intermediary

Interposition

N interposition, interjacence, intercurrence, intervenience, interlocation, interdigitation, interjection, interpolation, interlineation, interspersion, intercalation, interpenetration, permeation, infiltration, intervention, interference, intrusion, obtrusion, insinuation, insertion, dovetailing, embolism, intermediary, intermedium, go between, bodkin, intruder, interloper, parenthesis, episode, flyleaf, partition, septum, diaphragm, midriff, dissepiment, party wall, panel, room divider, halfway house, interjacent, intercurrent, intervenient, intervening, intermediate, intermediary, intercalary, interstitial, embolismal, parenthetical, episodic, mediterranean, intrusive, embosomed, merged, between, betwixt, twixt, among, amongst, amid, amidst, mid, midst, in the thick of, betwixt and between, sandwich-wise, parenthetically, obiter dictum, interposition, interjacence, intercurrence, intervenience, interlocation, interdigitation, interjection, interpolation, interlineation, interspersion, intercalation, interpenetration, permeation, infiltration, intervention, interference, intrusion, obtrusion, insinuation, insertion, dovetailing, embolism, intermediary, intermedium, go between, bodkin, intruder, interloper, parenthesis, episode, flyleaf, partition, septum, diaphragm, midriff, dissepiment, party wall, panel, room divider, halfway house, interjacent, intercurrent, intervenient, intervening, intermediate, intermediary, intercalary, interstitial, embolismal, parenthetical, episodic, mediterranean, intrusive, embosomed, merged, between, betwixt, twixt, among, amongst, amid, amidst, mid, midst, in the thick of, betwixt and between, sandwich-wise, parenthetically, obiter dictum.