intercede

Meanings

1. 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.

2. 2
   verb

   to act between people or groups in order to settle a disagreement

   The union representative interceded between management and the workers.

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.

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