Mediation
[miːdɪ'eɪʃ(ə)n] or [midɪ'eʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the act of intervening for the purpose of bringing about a settlement.
(noun.) a negotiation to resolve differences that is conducted by some impartial party.
Editor: Val--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) The act of mediating; action or relation of anything interposed; action as a necessary condition, means, or instrument; interposition; intervention.
(a.) Hence, specifically, agency between parties at variance, with a view to reconcile them; entreaty for another; intercession.
Checker: Stan
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Interposition, intervention, arbitration.
Edited by Debra
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Interference, interposition, reconciliation, atonement, arbitration,adjustment
ANT:Neutrality, non-interference, indifference
Editor: Milton
Examples
- In the first place, the parents were made accomplices to the deed, for it was only through their mediation it was brought about. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She had some faint hopes that his mediation might save Charles, but they were very slight. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- But, although disabled from active work, Mr. Roebling continued to superintend the vast project through the constant mediation of his wife. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Editor: Philip