What does middleman mean?

Definitions for middleman
ˈmɪd lˌmænmid·dle·man

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word middleman.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. jobber, middleman, wholesalernoun

    someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers

  2. interlocutor, middlemannoun

    the performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages the others in talk

  3. contact, middlemannoun

    a person who is in a position to give you special assistance

    "he used his business contacts to get an introduction to the governor"

Wiktionary

  1. middlemannoun

    An intermediary, agent between two (or more) parties

  2. middlemannoun

    An intermediate dealer between the manufacturer and the retailer or customer

  3. Etymology: middle + man

ChatGPT

  1. middleman

    A middleman is an intermediary or agent between two or more parties who facilitates transactions, communications, or other interactions. This can include businesses such as wholesalers, distributors, brokers, or dealers who buy products from manufacturers and sell them to retailers or directly to consumers. Middlemen generally add value to transactions by providing services such as transportation, storage, marketing, or financing.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Middlemannoun

    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

  2. Middlemannoun

    a person of intermediate rank; a commoner

  3. Middlemannoun

    the man who occupies a central position in a file of soldiers

The Roycroft Dictionary

  1. middleman

    One who works both ends against the middle.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. MIDDLEMAN

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Middleman is ranked #57914 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Middleman surname appeared 351 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Middleman.

    92.5% or 325 total occurrences were White.
    3.1% or 11 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    2.5% or 9 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of middleman in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of middleman in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of middleman in a Sentence

  1. Andrew Marr:

    We’re taking out the middleman of the waiting room and [Veteran’s Affairs (VA)] and reducing the costs of what the VA and government spends on TBI patients.

  2. Benjamin Disraeli:

    It is well-known what a middleman is he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

  3. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin:

    Recently ISIL has been exploiting the potential of social media more and more frequently so as to cut out the middleman and sell artifacts directly to buyers.

  4. Antonio Brown:

    Brady is the general manager. He’s the guy my agent made the contract with, he’s the middleman and politician. I talked to Tom, and he knows I’m not going to play, to me, a friend is someone who’s got your back. Not everybody in sports is going to be your friend. Tom Brady’s my friend. Why? Because I’m a good player. He needs me to play football. People have different meanings of what friendship is.

  5. Probarb:

    4 Ms are most enjoying and happy during pandemic or lockdown and they are Media news channel, Medicineres & physicians, Middleman or Profit Makers and Most rich people.

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