middleman
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- n someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers
- n the performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages the others in talk
- n a person who is in a position to give you special assistance
- I was the middleman, and whenever you're the middleman you lose both.
- Disintermediation another SAT word whizzing around the Web means removing the middleman, and that's the strategy of real estate site Redfin, which aims to do to Realtors .
- It's a basic rule of economics: if you want a deal, eliminate the middleman.