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 hope is to find a piece of amber for which a middleman might pay him $1 to $5.
  — MarÍa Verza, chicagotribune.com, 15 Oct. 2020
• 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
• Our brand is not just about getting rid of the middleman.
  — Amanda Sims, House Beautiful, 28 Feb. 2020
• Owning the team cut out the middleman, gave you more control and more of a stake in your own success.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Aug. 2020
• 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
• Just head to one of the many online person-to-person marketplaces to skip the middleman.
  — Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2020
• Skip the middleman with the Snap N Strainer, which attaches directly to the pot for easy drainage.
  — Courtney Campbell, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2020
• 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
• The district hired a middleman company to buy it, and that company gave it to the district.
  — Dallas News, 4 June 2020
• 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
• Over time, this reduces your role as the middleman and allows your team to operate more autonomously.
  — Daria Rudnik, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
• Catch up quick: Synapse was a middleman, connecting fintechs that didn't have banking licenses with actual banks.
  — Dan Primack, Axios, 25 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024