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Definition of Middleman

1. Noun. Someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers.

2. Noun. The performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages the others in talk.

3. Noun. A person who is in a position to give you special assistance. "He used his business contacts to get an introduction to the governor"

Definition of Middleman

1. n. An agent between two parties; a broker; a go-between; any dealer between the producer and the consumer; in Ireland, one who takes land of the proprietors in large tracts, and then rents it out in small portions to the peasantry.

Definition of Middleman

1. Noun. An intermediary, agent between two (or more) parties ¹

2. Noun. An intermediate dealer between the manufacturer and the retailer or customer ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Middleman

1. [n MIDDLEMEN]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Middleman

middle turbinated bone middle umbilical fold middle umbilical ligament middle voice middle watch middle way middle youth middleaged middlebox middleboxes

middlebreaker middlebrow middlebrows middled middlegame middleman (current term) middlemen middlemost middleoftheroader middleoftheroaders

middler middlers middles middlescence middleware middlewares middleweight middleweights middlewoman middlewomen

Literary usage of Middleman

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Marketing Perishable Farm Products by Arthur Barto Adams (1916)
"COST-FACTORS OF THE middleman SYSTEM What does each type or class of middleman receive for his work and what are his necessary expenses? ..."

2. American Law of Real Estate Agency: Including the Duties and Liabilities of by William Slee Walker (1922)
"A broker who acts as a middleman to effect a purchase and sale of property, ... Broker masquerading as a middleman who acquires interests adverse to owner ..."

3. Marketing, Its Problems and Methods by Carson Samuel Duncan (1920)
"CHAPTER V THE middleman 72. Who the middleman Is.—A middleman is one who performs ... 1 It is often true that a single middleman combines within himself ..."

4. The Milk Question by Milton Joseph Rosenau (1912)
"The middleman The middleman occupies a peculiar position in the milk industry. ... In Boston and other large cities the middleman is known as the contractor ..."

5. Christianizing the Social Order by Walter Rauschenbusch (1912)
"CHAPTER VI THE REIGN OF THE middleman WHEN Adam delved and Eve span, ... With the appearance of the middleman a new moral factor entered the situation. ..."

6. Readings in Industrial Society: A Study in the Structure and Functioning of by Leon Carroll Marshall (1918)
"This consideration looks over into the second division, namely, the middleman's service to the consumer. To only a small extent is the modern consumer able ..."

7. Agricultural Economics by James Ernest Boyle (1921)
"CHAPTER IX MARKETING AND THE middleman Four Steps in Marketing. ... In other words, when these four problems are solved, the "middleman problem" will ..."

8. A Guide to the Best Fiction in English by William Winter, George Saintsbury, Ernest Albert Baker (1918)
""THE middleman." EDWARD SMITH WILLARD made his first appearance on the American Stage at Palmer's Theatre, New York (now, 1912, Wallack's Theatre), ..."

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