All 5 Uses
mediate
in
Change of Heart, by Picoult
(Edited)
- I want to know if there's some kind of court-ordered mediation we can ask for.
*mediation = process of helping to settle a disagreement
- Don't talk until the mediator asks you to.
mediator = person who helps others to settle a disagreement
- The mediator was a woman named Abigail Herrick, who'd come from the attorney general's victim's assistance office and had been trained to do this kind of thing.
- I'm going to be the mediator today.
- "Victim-offender mediation is a process that gives a victim the chance to meet her offender in a safe and structured setting," Abigail explained.
mediation = the process of helping others to settle a disagreement
Definitions:
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(1)
(mediate as in: asked her to mediate the talks) help others to settle a disagreement
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(2)
(mediate as in: disease is mediated by) influenced
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, mediate can mean: being neither at the beginning nor end in a series -- as in "It is in a mediate position."