Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Go-between \Go"-be*tween`\, n.
A negotiator who acts as a link between parties; an
intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- sometimes in a
disparaging sense.
--Shak.
Syn: mediator, intermediator, intermediary.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. An intermediary or middleman.
WordNet
n. a negotiator who acts as a link between parties [syn: mediator, intermediator, intermediary, intercessor]
Wikipedia
A go-between is an intermediary.
(The) Go-Between may refer to:
- The Go-Between, an 1953 novel by L.P. Hartley
- The Go-Between (1971 film), the 1971 film adaptation of L.P. Harley's novel by Harold Pinter
- The Go-Between (2015 film), the 2015 BBC adaptation of L.P. Harley's novel
- The Go Between Bridge, a bridge in Brisbane, Australia
- The Go-Betweens, an indie rock band from Australia
Usage examples of "go-between".
As a go-between, Korza was too scared of both Beak and Goofer to deliver any uncomplimentary message to either.
There is no Tress to be her go-between, no older brother, no smaller brother, no Father, no Mother, no Mamo to be her comfort.
The don says he is merely a go-between for several notables in the city to whom the pesos taken from illegal pulquerias, whorehouses, and control of the marketplace ultimately passes.
But Moyne would be too crafty to murder a go-between like Talman, unless he could turn the act into a perfect crime.
He also provided the go-betweens to Baumer, avoiding any direct involvement of the SoA.
A compradore, usually a well born Eurasian, was the indispensable go-between betwixt European and Chinese traders, who could speak fluent English and Chinese dialects, and to whose hands at least ten percent of all transactions stuck.
He cultivated in Chalced both merchants in the seedier ports that would buy unusual cargoes with no questions asked, and lesser Chalcedean lords who did not scruple to act as go-betweens in the ransoming of ships, cargoes and crews.
A hundred sequins for her and ten sequins for the go-between was the price fixed on.
Sachkor, going off by himself and hunting up the Helmet People, then bringing them back and trying to set himself up as the go-between for the two tribes, had not displayed a great deal of wisdom.
This was second time in seven years that Jonathan Millgate had implicated as a go-between in a major arms scandal, Pittman knew that if he failed to investigate this time, if he didn't at least make an attempt to get a statement from him gate's people, Burt Forsyth would accuse him of renigging on his bargain to do his best for the Chronicle during brief time remaining to it.
I had reconciled them several times already, and they regarded me as a kind of go-between.
That was where Sarda was, and about the only chance Balmer had of placating certain netherworldly go-betweens who weren't feeling amused just now depended on unlocking information that he hoped still resided somewhere inside Sarda's skull.
Look - ' 'There is one other person who knows about the ones who died, Mr Colley: the go-between.
The artful agent having asked, with the mysterious air of an expert go-between, if he had not lately received a message from a certain young lady, and, being answered in the affirmative, gave him to understand, that she herself was a person favoured with the friendship and confidence of Wilhelmina, whom she had known from her cradle, and often dandled on her knee.
Greeley had warily consented to Gilmore's scheme, but when the go-between acted mainly as an apologist for Lincoln's delays on emancipation, Greeley ordered Gay to ignore him.