middleman Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers
    wholesaler; jobber.
  2. noun the performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages the others in talk
    interlocutor.
  3. noun a person who is in a position to give you special assistance
    contact.
    • he used his business contacts to get an introduction to the governor

WordNet

Mid"dle*man noun
Wordforms
plural Middlemen
Definitions
  1. An agent between two parties; a broker; a go-between; any dealer between the producer and the consumer; in Ireland, one who takes land of the proprietors in large tracts, and then rents it out in small portions to the peasantry.
  2. A person of intermediate rank; a commoner.
  3. (Mil.) The man who occupies a central position in a file of soldiers.

Webster 1913