(~s, mediating, ~d)
1.
If someone ~s between two groups of people, or ~s an agreement between them, they try to settle an argument between them by talking to both groups and trying to find things that they can both agree to.
My mom was the one who ~d between Zelda and her mom...
United Nations officials have ~d a series of peace meetings between the two sides...
The Vatican successfully ~d in a territorial dispute between Argentina and Chile in 1984...
UN peacekeepers ~d a new cease-fire.
VERB: V between pl-n, V n between pl-n, V, V n
mediation
The agreement provides for United Nations mediation between the two sides...
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mediator (mediators)
An archbishop has been acting as mediator between the rebels and the authorities.
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2.
If something ~s a particular process or event, it allows that process or event to happen and influences the way in which it happens. (FORMAL)
...the thymus, the organ which ~s the response of the white blood cells...
VERB: V n
mediation
This works through the mediation of the central nervous system.
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