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.

Simplified etymology

Intercede entered English in the late 16th century and derives from the family of Latin cedere, “to yield, give way, go.” Its underlying idea was to “go between.”

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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