mediator
Other forms: mediators
A mediator is a person who helps negotiate between two feuding parties. When a married couple is considering getting divorced, they sometimes hire a mediator to help them come to an agreement, and possibly even avoid divorce.
The word mediator goes back to the Latin word medius, which means middle. A mediator is supposed to remain in the neutral middle rather than taking one side over another, in order to help both sides resolve a dispute. Mediators negotiate between employers and employees, disputing couples, and in schools helping kids work out their conflicts peacefully rather than fighting on the playground or lunchroom.
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a negotiator who acts as a link between partiessynonyms: go-between, intercessor, intermediary, intermediatortypes:mediatrixa woman who is a mediatordiplomata person who deals tactfully with othersmarriage broker, matcher, matchmakersomeone who arranges (or tries to arrange) marriages for othersmoderatorsomeone who mediates disputes and attempts to avoid violencesecond handan intermediate person; used in the phrase `at second hand'appeasersomeone who tries to bring peace by acceding to demandsdragomanan interpreter and guide in the Near East; in the Ottoman Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries a translator of European languages for the Turkish and Arab authorities and most dragomans were Greek (many reached high positions in the government)modifiera moderator who makes less extreme or uncompromisingsymboliser, symbolist, symbolizersomeone skilled in the interpretation or representation of symbolstype of:negotiant, negotiator, treatersomeone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement)
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