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UK
/mˈɪdəlmˌæn/
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[ US /ˈmɪdəɫˌmæn/ ]
[ US /ˈmɪdəɫˌmæn/ ]
NOUN
- someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers
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a person who is in a position to give you special assistance
he used his business contacts to get an introduction to the governor - the performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages the others in talk
How To Use middleman In A Sentence
- Some factories have cut out the middleman and sell their products directly to customers.
- Most of the profit goes to the retailer; some goes to the middleman, and the remaining portion goes to the producer.
- That's because the Internet is increasingly cutting out the middleman.
- It's the middleman who used to buy Sam's aloe wood; Sam still owes him 6,000 baht for helping pay his poaching fine.
- The system can be speeded up by cutting out the middleman and burning the wood on a bonfire. Times, Sunday Times
- Some called Beverly Hills financial adviser Stanley Chais an investment wizard, but in reality he was nothing more than a glorified middleman, channeling hundreds of millions of dollars in investors 'funds to Bernie Madoff in New York. Jerry Brown: California's Own Bernie Madoff
- This is the traditional meaning of the word comprador whose origin was Portuguese meaning ‘purchaser’ and coming into use to refer to a local merchants acting as a middleman between foreign producers and a local market. A Maoist critique of the CPI(Marxist)
- During the Dutch colonial administration, ethnic-Chinese were encouraged to assume an economic "compradore" (middleman) role between the Dutch authorities and the subjugated indigenous populations.
- In the transport the freight transportation by sea, the agent, carrier and middleman status of freight forward under the circumstance of freight forward's performing on his own behalf.Sentencedict
- A Butty in the mining districts is a middleman: a Doggy is his manager.
