Meanings
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1
verb
to intervene by pleading with a person in authority on someone else's behalf
She asked the ambassador to intercede with the authorities on the prisoner's behalf.
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2
verb
to act between people or groups in order to settle a disagreement
The union representative interceded between management and the workers.
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Etymology
From French intercéder and Latin intercedere, literally "to go between," from inter- ("between") + cedere ("to go, yield"). The older spatial sense developed into intervening in a dispute or pleading on another person's behalf.