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Middlemen

Middleman \Mid"dle*man\, n.; pl. Middlemen.

  1. An agent between two parties; a broker; a go-between; any dealer between the producer and the consumer; in Ireland, one who takes land of the proprietors in large tracts, and then rents it out in small portions to the peasantry.

  2. A person of intermediate rank; a commoner.

  3. (Mil.) The man who occupies a central position in a file of soldiers.

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middlemen

n. (plural of middleman English)

Usage examples of "middlemen".

These statutes tend to protect the interests of middlemen - manufacturers, distributors, marketers - rather than the claims of inventors and innovators.

Agents ultimately infiltrated the ring, posed as middlemen, accompanied poachers on hunts, that sort of thing.

Yet George Loricroft had been neither…perhaps a racehorse trainer then… perhaps the Traders were indeed solely middlemen, and George had broken the company's own rules of never taking the merchandise home, especially if you have a jealous wife.

The Traders were middlemen, and John Rupert, Ghost and others like them, were middlemen catchers.

Even some of the freed slaves who had returned to Ghana and Togo from captivity in Brazil became slavers, working as middlemen for the Europeans.

The items are then sold to “garbage barons,” middlemen who in some cases have made small fortunes off garbage, enough at least to replace their zinc shanties with mudbrick or cement.

Hershey Zamzow had spoken of Asian middlemen in bear gall trafficking.

Most of it was accomplished by telephone, through so many middlemen that nothing could be traced back to him.

In earlier years, our trading network spread from the Ohogans to the Tassaleyo Forest, with the retiring little Uisgu ever acting as our middlemen with other races of Folk.

He was always the middle man’ between the middlemen between the middlemen, “ Kevin mused.