mediated

[mee-dee-ey-tid]

adjective

1. (of disputes, strikes, etc.) settled or resolved with the help of an intermediary.

   In the 15 years in which he has served as a mediator, he has settled over 90% of his mediated disputes.

2. (of an agreement, truce, settlement, etc.) brought about with the help of an intermediary between parties.

   A mediated divorce is much cheaper than negotiating through lawyers or going to court.

3. indirectly experienced, effected, or conveyed; happening by means of or through someone or something else.

   I see technology as any mediated form of communication, rather than face-to-face communication.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of mediate.

Other Word Forms

• unmediated adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of mediated¹

mediate ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

Talks between the Venezuelan opposition and the Maduro government mediated by Norway and held in Barbados broke down as did an earlier Vatican-backed effort at finding a way out of Venezuela's political crisis.

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It has always favoured the talks mediated by Qatar, saying they will address "the root causes" of the conflict.

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Several previous cease-fire deals mediated by the U.S.,

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As Guy Debord warned in “The Society of the Spectacle,” when social life becomes mediated by images, “the spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.”

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But those efforts, pushed for by the United States and mediated by Qatar, have yet to stop violence on the ground in the east.

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