mediate
B1CEFR level
22/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
Law verb
To help opposing parties reach their own agreement without imposing a decision.
She was engaged to mediate the licensing row, steering both sides toward a workable compromise.
Business verb
To act as a neutral party helping two sides reach agreement.
A retired judge was brought in to mediate once the parties reached deadlock on damages.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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