Other forms: mediations
Mediation is settling a dispute with a neutral helper in the room. Go to mediation, family mediation, mediation failed.
The mediator has no power to decide, which is exactly the difference from arbitration — the parties keep the decision, and that is why settlements reached this way tend to hold. It is standard in family and employment disputes and courts often require it first. Note mediate; and that the Latin means to be in the middle.
1nounmediationSettling a dispute with a neutral helper in the room.
“Instead of going to court, the couple agreed to try mediation to divide their property.”
mediation is a way of settling disputes.
Latin mediatio comes from mediari, to be in the middle, from medius. Medium, immediate and mean come from the same middle.
Latin
mediātiō
Middle French
mediacion
Middle English
mediacion,mediacioun,medyacion,medyacyoun
English, today
mediation
Built from
From Middle English mediacion,mediacioun,medyacion,medyacyoun from Middle French mediacion and its etymon Latin mediātiō, from mediārī (“intervene”), from Latin medius (“middle”). by surface analysis, mediate + -ion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA