middleman
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3.9
- noun
- /ˈmɪdəlˌmæn/
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intermediario
- At some point during the mid-1980s, PRC officials decided to eliminate North Korea as the middleman and supply Iran directly.
- middleman minority
- role of the middleman
He's like the middleman between heaven and earth.
- He's like the middleman between heaven and earth.
- So that was where I think once they started to get the information that I've just been like the middleman basically.
- The Internet is the middleman, which means nobody's in control except for the end audience at scale.
- Yeah, he was, he come across kind, even though he was part of the criminal fraternity, to me, he just seemed like he was the middleman.
- And you're, you still have people, firms, lobbyists giving massive amount of money to politics and they now just have this little middleman process they follow.
- Bud Light, the Internet is the middleman.
- And when he said, dude, you're eating the middleman.
- way, yeah, but every middleman has to start like there's a date where they start. And this is a very
Examples
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Rebozo served as the middleman in several dealings with Howard Hughes.
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Conceptually, the service acts as a middleman by connecting participating stores with customers seeking a specific product.
Blog text (3) -
Your boss was just a middleman, Lee.
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I was just the middleman.
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The art of good business is being a good middleman.
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The role of Venice as a trading middleman is well known.
Academic text (1993) -
The Internet is the middleman, which means nobody's in control except for the end audience at scale.
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New research reveals that a middleman connecting them could be profitable for both.
Blog text (25) -
Sometimes Congress is even more forthright in its buck-passing, and it cuts out the bureaucratic middleman altogether.
Academic text (1990) -
In negotiations, her role as a middleman helped bridge the gap between the two parties.
Synonyms
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6.8
A person or group who helps different sides agree
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4.9
A person who passes messages and helps two people or groups agree
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4.3
A person who makes and negotiates business deals between companies
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7.7
A person who helps two sides talk and reach an agreement
A woman who helps arrange deals or introductions between people
Idioms
How Involved
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- Formal
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2.8
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6.8
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3.9
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Middleman comes from middle + man, literally a person 'in the middle' who connects two others. That's why a middleman helps make deals or introduces people, acting between them.