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mid·dle·man

(mĭd′l-măn′)

1. A trader who buys from producers and sells to retailers or consumers.

2. An intermediary; a go-between.

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middleman

(ˈmɪdəlˌmæn)

n, pl -men

1. (Commerce) an independent trader engaged in the distribution of goods from producer to consumer

2. an intermediary

3. (Theatre) theatre the interlocutor in minstrel shows

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mid•dle•man

(ˈmɪd lˌmæn)

n., pl. -men.

1. a person who buys goods from the producer and resells them to the retailer or consumer.

2. a person who acts as an intermediary.

[1785–95]

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Noun	1.	middleman - someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers jobber, wholesaler distributer, distributor - someone who markets merchandise meat packer, packer - a wholesaler in the meat-packing business
	2.	middleman - the performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages the others in talk interlocutor minstrel - a performer in a minstrel show
	3.	middleman - a person who is in a position to give you special assistance; "he used his business contacts to get an introduction to the governor" contact representative - a person who represents others

middleman

noun intermediary, broker, entrepreneur, distributor, go-between Why don't they cut out the middleman and let us do it ourselves?

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middleman

noun

Someone who acts as an intermediate agent in a transaction or helps to resolve differences:

broker, go-between, interceder, intercessor, intermediary, intermediate, intermediator, mediator.

Translations

سِمْسار، وَسيط

zprostředkovatel

mellemmand

Zwischenhändler

välikäsivälimiesvälittäjä

intermédiaire

milliliîur

intermediario mediatore

tussenhandelaartussenpersoon

mellomledd

posrednik

aracı

中间人经纪人

middleman

[ˈmɪdlmæn] N (middlemen (pl)) (Comm) → intermediario/a m/f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

middleman

[ˈmɪd^əlmæn] n → intermédiaire m
through a middleman → par l'entremise d'un intermédiaire
to cut out the middleman → supprimer les intermédiairesmiddle management n → cadres mpl moyensmiddle manager n → cadre m moyenmiddle name n

(= second Christian name) → deuxième prénom m

(= key characteristic)
Geniality is my middle name → Je suis la bienveillance incarnée.middle-of-the-road [ˌmɪd^ələvðəˈrəʊd] adj

[opinions, policies] → modéré(e)

[music] → grand public invmiddle school

n → collège m

modif [head teacher] → du collège; [library, cafeteria] → du collège; [mathematics] → des collèges
middle school student → collégien(ne) m/fmiddle-sized [ˈmɪd^əlsaɪzd] adj [town, company] → de taille moyenne

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

middleman

[ˈmɪdlˌmæn] n (-men (pl)) (gen) → intermediario (Comm) → (agente m) rivenditore m

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

middle

(ˈmidl) noun

1. the central point or part. the middle of a circle.

2. the central area of the body; the waist. You're getting rather fat round your middle.

adjective

equally distant from both ends. the middle seat in a row.

ˈmiddling adjective

average. He's neither tall nor short, but of middling height.

middle age

the years between youth and old age. She is well into middle age.

ˌmiddle-ˈaged adjective

Middle Ages (with the)

the time between the end of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance.

Middle East (with the)

Egypt and the countries of Asia west of Pakistan.

ˈmiddleman (-mӕn) noun

a dealer who buys goods from the person who makes or grows them, and sells them to shopkeepers or to the public; a wholesaler. You can save money by buying direct from the factory and cutting out the middleman.

be in the middle of (doing) something

to be busily occupied doing something. Please excuse my appearance. I was in the middle of washing my hair.

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To gratify Jansenius I waived this objection, and only interfered to save him from being fleeced and fooled by an unnecessary West End middleman, who, as likely as not, would have eventually employed the very man to whom I gave the job.

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To act as middleman between the pursuer of wealth, and the wealth which he pursued, or to stand as a human barometer, registering the rise and fall of the great mammon pressure in the markets, was not the work for which Providence had placed those broad shoulders and strong limbs upon his well knit frame.

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Summary: New Delhi [India], Aug 29 (ANI): A Delhi court on Thursday reserved its order on the regular bail plea of Christian Michel, alleged middleman in the Rs 3,600 crore AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal.

AgustaWestland case: Delhi court reserves order on Christian Michel's bail plea

Tax potential in the income earned by the traders of farm produce, the middleman or arthis, is no less than Rs1 trillion, according to a statement from Zaidi which appeared in Business Recorder in January this year.

Govt mulls tax levy on middlemen's income

wheat stock from the illegal godown of middleman Maqbool Hussain.

800 bags of illegal wheat stock recovered

MUZAFFARGARH -- Special Judicial Magistrate Shakeel Ahmed along with a police team recovered illegal wheat stock from godown of a middleman here on Thursday.

800 bags of illegal wheat stock recovered

In agriculture, that mafia is the middleman,' says the 45-year-old grower.

Special Report: Machiavellian middlemen

MULTAN -- Farmers have started selling wheat to middleman at low price due to unnecessary delay in wheat procurement process by the Punjab Food Department.

Delay in procurement forcing farmers to sell wheat at low price

An operation soon took place at an uncertified clinic provided by one middleman to remove the right kidney from Wang, according to a report on CCTV.com at the time.

Young man is disabled and bedbound after selling his kidney on the black market to buy an iPhone and iPad

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Saturday allowed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to quiz British national Christian Michel, the middleman accused in the Rs36 billion (Dh1.8 billion) AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal case, for seven days.

British middleman can be questioned, Indian court rules

Christian James Michel, a British middleman wanted by Indian investigative agencies in connection with the Rs36 billion AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal case, has been extradited from the UAE to India.

Video: Agusta middleman extradited to India, CBI takes custody

The government will look to reduce its dependency on middleman organisations like foreign labour recruitment companies, Human Resources Minister M.