middleman
a person who plays an economic role intermediate between producer and retailer or consumer.
a person who acts as an intermediary.
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How to use middleman in a sentence
Dayforward is aiming to modernize the insurance industry by cutting out the middleman and allowing customers to buy directly from the site.
‘Crafting the brand’: How former Huge CEO is pivoting from agency background in service of DTC life insurance startup | Kimeko McCoy | February 3, 2021 | DigidayNo Google Analytics means no middleman between Ekstra Bladet and data from its site, whether its views or subscription conversions.
‘We had to take full ownership of data’: Why Denmark’s biggest news site cut reliance on Google’s tech | Seb Joseph | January 27, 2021 | DigidayExtracting fees from publishers, advertisers, and as the middleman.
Google accused of colluding with Facebook and abusing monopoly power in new lawsuit | George Nguyen | December 17, 2020 | Search Engine LandIn many cases, brands are not getting much ad inventory for their money because an increasingly large portion of the spending is going to middlemen.
Specializing in sleep products, Coop Home Goods cannot be found in stores but thrives online, cutting out the middleman during sales to better guarantee customer satisfaction.
A more recent wrinkle is the doctor who prescribes from his own office, cutting out the middleman (read: pharmacist).
New Study Says Doctors Can’t “Just Say No” to Their Patients | Kent Sepkowitz | March 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut it turns out that the manager had received no such recording, due to some middleman botching the exchange.
It is a highly efficient, fair, reliable, technologically advanced, and cheap-enough middleman.
Warby Parker's reinvention of the high-priced optical industry relied on one main tactic: cutting out the middleman.
Warby Parker Thrives by Giving Away Glasses Whenever It Sells a Pair | Nina Strochlic | May 7, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAs is the case with all secondary markets, however, the middleman usually takes a piece.
If he happens also to be a Captain of Industry, which usually he is not, it is merely one middleman cut out.
The Inhumanity of Socialism | Edward F. AdamsThe important thing for you is that he is the middleman on whom you depend for the disease.
By the Christmas Fire | Samuel McChord CrothersThe Law was handed down by a being even inferior to the angels, by a middleman named Moses.
Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians | Martin LutherThey endeavored to cut off the profits of the middleman by establishing cooperative grocery stores, meat markets, and coal yards.
A History of Trade Unionism in the United States | Selig PerlmanBut the manufacturer's emancipation from the middleman need not always lead to trade agreements.
A History of Trade Unionism in the United States | Selig Perlman
British Dictionary definitions for middleman
/ (ˈmɪdəlˌmæn) /
an independent trader engaged in the distribution of goods from producer to consumer
an intermediary
theatre the interlocutor in minstrel shows
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