middlemen
- plural of middleman.
Example Sentences
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“The old model of global health assistance was essentially an open-ended subsidy—dollars flowing to overpriced middlemen with minimal accountability and no exit strategy,” a State Department spokesman said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
The companies cutting out these middlemen will be eliminating over half of the current roles, the estimate said.
From MarketWatch ● May 7, 2026
To understand where the system breaks down, we must begin with PBMs — the middlemen hired by health plans to negotiate lower prices from drug manufacturers and manage prescription drug benefits for patients.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 7, 2026
Some of those clients are middlemen, running their own application counseling services overseas and asking me to rewrite hundreds of essays that were translated into English using A.I.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026
That way, they could have the prized Asian spices they wanted without having to pay high prices to Venetian and Muslim middlemen.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
