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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Middleman \Mid"dle*man\, noun; pl. {Middlemen}.
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
middleman
noun
1: someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers [syn: {jobber}, {wholesaler}]
2: the performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages the others in talk [syn: {interlocutor}]
3: a person who is in a position to give you special assistance; "he used his business contacts to get an introduction to the governor" [syn: {contact}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
57 Moby Thesaurus words for "middleman": agent, arbitrator, broker, chandler, connection, contact, dealer, deputy, distributor, entrepreneur, front, front man, go-between, importer, interagent, interceder, intercessor, intermediary, intermediate, intermediate agent, intermediator, intermedium, internuncio, interpleader, intervener, interventionist, interventor, jobber, liaison, link, marketer, mediary, mediator, medium, merchandiser, merchant, monger, mouthpiece, negotiant, negotiator, negotiatress, negotiatrix, ombudsman, regrater, retail dealer, retail merchant, retailer, shopkeeper, spokesman, spokeswoman, storekeeper, tie, trader, tradesman, tradeswoman, trafficker, wholesaler
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