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
• Friendly lawyers, banks and middlemen were on hand to park the loot.
  — The Economist, 10 Oct. 2019
• 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
• In some cases, buyers and middlemen have been forced to sell the gems at a loss.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 30 July 2019
• Their catch is then sold to middlemen, who in turn sell them to exporters in Port-au-Prince.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 23 Jan. 2025
• 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
• So the customers buy the product; BlackRock is just the middleman.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2019
• 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
• Their model has been about artists first and cutting out the middleman.
  — Taylor Mims, Billboard, 17 Jan. 2020
• 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
• Still, Murphy said, landlords may choose to raise rents to offset the loss of the middleman broker's fee.
  — Eric Levenson, CNN, 6 Feb. 2020
• 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
• There are dozens of competitors for that smart-middleman role, though.
  — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2019
• Not to mention cutting out the deadweight middlemen in publishing.
  — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
• But only those with local phone numbers can purchase a ticket on the train’s app; the rest have to use middlemen services, easily available online, or wait in line.
  — Christine Chung, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 1 Mar 2025