mid·dle·man /ˈmɪdḷˌmæn/
中間人
Mid·dle·man n.; pl. Middlemen
1. An agent between two parties; a broker; a go-between; any dealer between the producer and the consumer; in Ireland, one who takes land of the proprietors in large tracts, and then rents it out in small portions to the peasantry.
2. A person of intermediate rank; a commoner.
3. Mil. The man who occupies a central position in a file of soldiers.
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middleman
n 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]