middleman

Meanings

Plural: middlemen

Noun

• someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers
• the performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages the others in talk
• a person who is in a position to give you special assistance
• An intermediary, agent between two (or more) parties.
• An intermediate dealer between the manufacturer and the retailer or customer.
• One who rents land in large tracts, and lets it in small portions to the peasantry.

Verb

• To act as a middleman or intermediary.

Synonyms

contact, go-between, grocer, interlocutor, intermediary, jobber, mediator, wholesaler