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
• Why should a team not go out on its own and cut out the middleman?
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2021
• The middleman in the deals, Bloomberg said, was Mr. Greensill.
  — New York Times, 28 Mar. 2021
• 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
• My understanding of this in a way is to cut out the middleman.
  — Julia Chatterley, CNN, 5 May 2021
• 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
• To get started this season, Singh took a Rs7 lakh loan from a middleman.
  — Vijayta Lalwani, Quartz India, 9 Dec. 2020
• Then the fashion houses started buying farms to cut out the middlemen — and to set the market price.
  — Hannah Farrow, Orlando Sentinel, 20 June 2024
• 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
• Like Airbnb, Turo acts as a middleman, matching persons who want to rent something - in this case, a car - with the people (hosts) who own them.
  — Jim Clash, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
• In this case, the buyer pays the fee to a middleman, who releases it to the vendor only after the buyer has received the goods.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2021
• 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
• Riders can also save a lot of money because of the absence of a middleman.
  — Annie Brown, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2021
• In other words, Lemonade is a middleman doing the job of many WhatsApp groups for senders and receivers but on one app.
  — Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 3 Nov. 2021
• Helen, who served as the middleman between the Byrdes and Navarro, was shot dead in the final moments of the season three finale.
  — Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 6 Jan. 2022
• This is in contrast to a broker, who is a middleman and connects both buyers and sellers.
  — Mike Swigunski, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2021
• 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
• The big money was being made by middlemen and grocery-store owners.
  — Eyal Press, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
• There’s no need for middlemen or human discretion—at least in theory.
  — Nizan Geslevich Packin, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024