intermediary
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In sales, the term intermediary describes how pulling buyers and sellers together while aggregating data can facilitate transactions. Internet-based intermediaries create multi-vendor, multi-product marketplaces.
Last updated: June 15, 2004.
American Heritage Dictionary:
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in·ter·me·di·ar·y
(ĭn'tər-mē'dē-ĕr'ē) 
adj.
adj.
- Existing or occurring between; intermediate.
- Acting as a mediator or an agent between persons or things.
- One that acts as a mediator.
- One that acts as an agent between persons or things; a means.
- An intermediate state or stage.
[Probably French intermédiaire, from Late Latin intermedius, intermediate. See intermediate.]
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person or institution empowered to make investment decisions for others. Some examples are banks, savings and loan institutions, insurance companies, brokerage firms, mutual funds, and credit unions. These specialists are knowledgeable about investment alternatives and can achieve a higher return than the average investor can. Furthermore, they deal in large dollar volumes, have lower transaction costs, and can diversify their assets easily. Also called financial intermediary.
| Intermarket Trading System (ITS), Intermarket Surveillance Information System (ISIS) | |
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intermediary
noun
- Someone who acts as an intermediate agent in a transaction or helps to resolve differences: broker, go-between, interceder, intercessor, intermediate, intermediator, mediator, middleman. See means.
- That by which something is accomplished or some end achieved: agency, agent, instrument, instrumentality, instrumentation, mean3 (used in plural), mechanism, medium, organ. See means.
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IN BRIEF: Acting as a mediator. Also: A middle or in-between product or stage.
Like music, [art] acts on the soul through the intermediary of the senses: harmonious colors correspond to the harmonies of sound.
— Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), French artist.
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- For a publishing house, associated with the name of Leo Tolstoy see Intermediary (publisher)
An intermediary (or go-between) is a third party that offers intermediation services between two trading parties. The intermediary acts as a conduit for goods or services offered by a supplier to a consumer. Typically the intermediary offers some added value to the transaction that may not be possible by direct trading.
Common usage includes the insurance and financial services industry where mortgage brokers, insurance broker, and financial advisers offer intermediation services in the supply of financial products such as mortgage loans, insurance, and investment products.
In barter, an intermediary is a person or group who stores valuables in trade until they are needed, parties to the barter or others have space available to take delivery of them and store them, or until other conditions are met. In a larger sense, an intermediary can be a person or organization who or which facilitates a contract between two other parties.
The Internet is creating a transparent awareness on the threats and opportunities available to automate intermediaries in many industries - see Disintermediation.
Types of Intermediaries
Intermediaries can be classified as merchant intermediaries or as accountant intermediaries.
In innovation, Innovation Intermediaries facilitate and broker the interactions of producers, users necessary to build markets and turn inventions into successful innovation. This is intermediary role can played by government agencies, consultants, etc.
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Intermediary
Dansk (Danish)
n. - mellemmand, formidler, mellemled
adj. - mellemliggende, mellem-
Nederlands (Dutch)
tussenpersoon, bemiddelaar, tussenstadium, tussenliggend, bemiddelend
Français (French)
n. - intermédiaire
adj. - intermédiaire
Deutsch (German)
n. - Vermittler
adj. - Zwischen-, vermittelnd
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ενδιάμεσος, μεσάζων, μεσολαβητής, μεσίτης
adj. - ενδιάμεσος, μεσολαβητικός
Italiano (Italian)
intermediario
Português (Portuguese)
n., -
adj. - intermediário (m)
Русский (Russian)
посредник, посредничество, переходная форма
Español (Spanish)
n. - intermediario, mediador, medio, conducto
adj. - intermediario, mediador, intermedio
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - mellanhand, mäklare, mellanled, mellanstadium, övergångsstadium
adj. - förmedlande, mellan-
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
仲裁者, 媒介物, 中间物, 中间的, 媒介的
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 仲裁者, 媒介物, 中間物
adj. - 中間的, 媒介的
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 중개자, 중간단계, 중간물
adj. - 중간의, 매개의
日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 中間の, 中継の, 仲介の, 媒介の
n. - 媒介者, 媒介, 手段, 仲裁者
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) وسيط, وسيله (صفه) متوسط
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - מתווך, איש-ביניים
adj. - פועל כמפשר או כמתווך, של ביניים
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