Intermediation

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of intermediating, or the state of being intermediate; intervention; interposition; intermediacy.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of coming between; intervention; mediation; interposition.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An act of coming between; an intervention.
  • noun. Intervention; interposition.
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  • noun. the act of intervening for the purpose of bringing about a settlement
  • Word Usage
    "Since the word "intermediation" means that a company accepts deposits and then lends them to others, that fancy word in the strategy simply states the obvious: It's a bank."