middleman
noun/ˈmɪdlmæn/
/ˈmɪdlmæn/
(plural middlemen
/ˈmɪdlmen/
/ˈmɪdlmen/
)- a person or a company that buys goods from the company that makes them and sells them to somebody else
- Buy direct from the manufacturer and cut out the middleman.
Extra Examples- The company sells through a middleman because it does not have its own sales force.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + middleman- act as
- be
- bypass
- …
- through a middleman
- middleman between
- middleman for
- …
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- a person who helps to arrange things between people who do not want to talk directly to each other synonym intermediary, go-between
- He acted as a middleman in discussions between the two companies.
- advisers who operate as middlemen between savers and borrowers.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + middleman- act as
- be
- bypass
- …
- through a middleman
- middleman between
- middleman for
- …
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