noun, plural mid·dle·men.
- a person who plays an economic role intermediate between producer and retailer or consumer.
- a person who acts as an intermediary.
noun plural -men
- an independent trader engaged in the distribution of goods from producer to consumer
- an intermediary
- theatre the interlocutor in minstrel shows
n.in the trading sense, 1795, from middle + man. From mid-15c. as the name of some type of workman in wire-making. From 1741 as “one who takes a middle course.”