middlemanmid‧dle‧man /ˈmɪdlmæn/ noun (plural middlemen /-men/) [countable] 
He acts as a middleman for British companies seeking contracts in the Gulf. Buy direct from the manufacturer and cut out the middleman (=avoid using a middleman).
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Stanley worked as a middleman on U.S. and Soviet business deals.
- A better plan, I figure, would be to eliminate the middleman.
- Cawthorne seems to have cut out the middleman.
- Mata, a consummate politician, seemed to enjoy his powerful administrative role as middleman between the communities and the private sector.
- Of course, if you have a fax at home, you can cut out the middleman.
- Their rates tend to be lower because they don't have to pay commission to middlemen.
- Therefore in a positive sense, conservation does not attract bureaucrats or quasi-official middlemen.
- While the synapse is only an inefficient chemical middleman in what are otherwise efficient electrical processes, it is a malleable middleman.
WORD SETS
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Buy direct from the manufacturer and cut out the middleman (=avoid using a middleman).COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB
someone who buys things in order to sell them to someone else, or who helps to arrange business deals for other people: Buy direct from the manufacturer and cut out the middleman (=avoid using a middleman).· Cawthorne seems to have cut out the middleman.· Of course, if you have a fax at home, you can cut out the middleman.
He acts as a middleman for British companies seeking contracts in the Gulf. Buy direct from the manufacturer and cut out the middleman (=avoid using a middleman).