middleman

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]

English

Pronunciation

• /mĭdʹəlmănʹ/
• [ˈmɪdɫ̩ˌmæn]

  Rhymes: -ɪdəlmæn

Etymology

middle + man

Alternative spellings

• middle man

Noun

1. an intermediary between two parties
2. a dealer, an intermediate between the manufacturer and the retailer or customer

Translations

• Finnish: välittäjä (1,2)
• German: Mittelsmann
• Portuguese: intermediário , intermediária
• Slovak: sprostredkovateľ
• Spanish: intermediario , coyote italbrac Mexico
• Swedish: mellanhand (1, 2)

Middle man or middleman may mean:

• An employee - typically a salesperson - who acts on behalf of a company when dealing with customers
• Middleman node, a node in anonymity networks such as Tor or Mixmaster that only forwards messages to other anonymizing nodes and never lets messages exit the network
• Man-in-the-middle attack, a type of attack in cryptography
• The Middle Man is a comic published by the notable independent publisher, Viper Comics.

See also

• Middle Men, a racial group of characters from J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe.

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