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middlemen


noun, plural mid·dle·men.

  1. a person who plays an economic role intermediate between producer and retailer or consumer.
  2. a person who acts as an intermediary.

noun plural -men

  1. an independent trader engaged in the distribution of goods from producer to consumer
  2. an intermediary
  3. 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.”

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