intermediate

Between two positions, stages, or levels, especially between beginner and advanced.

• This class is for intermediate students.
• She has reached an intermediate level in French.
• The process includes several intermediate stages.

How to use it: intermediate between A and B (This stage is intermediate between childhood and adulthood.)

Similar words: middle, midway

Common phrases: intermediate level, an intermediate course, intermediate students, an intermediate stage

Something that stands between other things or is produced during a process before its final result.

• The reaction produces an intermediate.
• This intermediate is then changed into the final product.
• Researchers identified two intermediates in the process.

Common phrases: a reaction intermediate, a chemical intermediate, a stable intermediate

A racing tyre used when the track is damp but not very wet.

• The driver switched to intermediates.
• Intermediates worked well on the damp track.
• One intermediate lost grip as the rain became heavier.

Common phrases: an intermediate tyre, a fresh intermediate, fit an intermediate

Someone who helps two people or groups communicate or make an agreement.

• They communicated through an intermediate.
• An intermediate carried messages between the two groups.
• He acted as an intermediate during the negotiations.

How to use it: an intermediate between A and B (She served as an intermediate between the buyer and seller.)

Similar words: intermediary, go-between, mediator

Common phrases: act as intermediate, through an intermediate, an intermediate between

To help arrange a deal or financial transaction between other people or organizations.

• Banks intermediate financial transactions.
• The firm intermediated loans for small businesses.
• These institutions intermediate between lenders and borrowers.

How to use it: intermediate between A and B (Banks intermediate between savers and borrowers.)

Similar words: broker, mediate

Common phrases: intermediate financial transactions, intermediate between parties, intermediate loans