How to Use middleman in a Sentence

middleman

noun

• We've cut out the middleman and can reduce prices for our customers.
• He acted as the middleman in the talks between labor and management.
• The Internet helps consumers save money by buying products directly from companies and eliminating the middleman.
• About a decade later, Musk took up the idea and cut out the middlemen.
  — Matt Day, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2023
• The town was a middleman between the European traders on the coast and the traders from the inner land.
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2023
• But there's more to Temu than just skipping the middleman.
  — Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2023
• The companies are paid back by middlemen who sell the drugs to the pharmacies.
  — Fran Kritz, Verywell Health, 20 June 2023
• Because the truth is, middlemen so often stick out like a sore thumb.
  — Eran Mizrahi, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• Transferred to the safekeeping of Qatar, the middleman in the hostage deal, the money may be used only to buy food or medicine.
  — Karl Vick, Time, 20 Sep. 2023
• This would eliminate one of the rounds of taxation levied at the point of the tea’s sales to middlemen within Britain.
  — The Editors, National Review, 16 Dec. 2023
• Winning the mayor’s office in Chicago is the perfect way to cut out the middleman.
  — Matt Paprocki, National Review, 16 Apr. 2023
• In this case, unlike for most dark-web payments, there was a middleman to go after.
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 8 Nov. 2022
• Cut out the middleman in the physical world, work directly with the customer.
  — Charlie Fink, Forbes, 6 June 2022
• Charles Sennett killed himself when police learned of his role in the plot, while Billy Gray Williams, the middleman, was sentenced to life in prison.
  — Ann E. Marimow, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
• Think of this online marketplace as the middleman between you and vetted shops and galleries around the world.
  — ELLE, 25 June 2022
• Consumers are now cutting out the middleman and buying chicks in droves, hatcheries have said.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 17 Mar. 2023
• Why not be honest, cut out the middleman and simply demand power for your tribe?
  — Time, 27 June 2023
• Brands want to buy it, users want to keep it for themselves, and the middleman collecting all this information doesn’t quite know what’s right.
  — Gary Drenik, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2023
• Drug middlemen once again were on the hot seat at a congressional hearing on Wednesday.
  — John Wilkerson, STAT, 21 June 2023
• This allowed savvy upstarts—such as BuzzFeed—to take advantage of the cheap media and serve as middlemen.
  — Sam Venis, The New Republic, 30 July 2023
• John Forrest Parker and Smith were paid $1,000 each by a middleman on Sennett’s behalf to carry out the murder.
  — Ann E. Marimow, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
• Some vendors are China-based and try to sell direct to consumers without a middleman.
  — Dallas News, 5 Jan. 2023
• The trucks are like middlemen between banks ready to have their cash inspected and the Fed, which receives the bills through high-security doors and windows.
  — Emily Wright, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
• In the collecting world, Fanatics has tried to cut out middlemen to reduce costs.
  — Ken Belson, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
• That decision would cut Apple out as the middleman and not require Epic Games to pay Apple a 30% fee on the transactions.
  — Christopher Hutton, Washington Examiner, 11 Dec. 2023
• The cartoon version of futures trading is this: a futures exchange is the middleman that lets strangers bet with each other.
  — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 6 Oct. 2023
• This concept of the middleman is what the modern-day music industry was built upon.
  — Sidney Swift, Rolling Stone, 4 Aug. 2022
• Huge sums that could be spent on care are instead being siphoned off to insurers and middlemen.
  — Cezary Podkul, ProPublica, 14 Aug. 2023
• But once, the topic was so big, Saenz knew Abbott would want more than highlights — and hence, eliminated himself as the middleman.
  — Dallas News, 28 Dec. 2022
• Cutting out the middleman could be lucrative for the musician.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 10 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024