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middleman
[ mid-l-man ]
noun
- a person who plays an economic role intermediate between producer and retailer or consumer.
- a person who acts as an intermediary.
middleman
/ ˈmɪdəlˌmæn /
noun
- an independent trader engaged in the distribution of goods from producer to consumer
- an intermediary
- theatre the interlocutor in minstrel shows
Word History and Origins
Origin of middleman1
Example Sentences
A more recent wrinkle is the doctor who prescribes from his own office, cutting out the middleman (read: pharmacist).
But it turns out that the manager had received no such recording, due to some middleman botching the exchange.
It is a highly efficient, fair, reliable, technologically advanced, and cheap-enough middleman.
Warby Parker's reinvention of the high-priced optical industry relied on one main tactic: cutting out the middleman.
As is the case with all secondary markets, however, the middleman usually takes a piece.
If he happens also to be a Captain of Industry, which usually he is not, it is merely one middleman cut out.
The important thing for you is that he is the middleman on whom you depend for the disease.
The Law was handed down by a being even inferior to the angels, by a middleman named Moses.
They endeavored to cut off the profits of the middleman by establishing cooperative grocery stores, meat markets, and coal yards.
But the manufacturer's emancipation from the middleman need not always lead to trade agreements.
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