/ˈmɪdlˌwɪmɪn/, U.S. /ˈmɪd(ə)lˌwɪmᵻn/.middlewomann.
/ˈmɪdlˌwʊmən/, U.S. /ˈmɪd(ə)lˌwʊmən//ˈmɪdlˌwɪmɪn/, U.S. /ˈmɪd(ə)lˌwɪmᵻn/. rare.
A woman who handles a commodity between its producer and its consumer, a female middleman.
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negotiatress1827
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middlewoman1908
1908 Econ. Jrnl. 18 154 The middlewoman renders an important service in the superintendence and distribution of work, but her profit is derived solely from the difference between the sum she pays the out-worker and the sum she receives from the warehouse.
1991 Tablet 21 Dec. 1599/2 Middlemen or, it seems, middlewomen, were indispensable to the business... They were needed to clear political and economic relationships—by which I understood her to mean, to circumvent the rules.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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