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.
  • Why should a team not go out on its own and cut out the middleman?
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Users skip the middleman and ditch the 48-hour hold.
    — Jamie Elkaleh, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Friendly lawyers, banks and middlemen were on hand to park the loot.
    — The Economist, 10 Oct. 2019
  • So, the dealer is kind of like a middleman.
    — Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 6 Apr. 2026
  • About a decade later, Musk took up the idea and cut out the middlemen.
    — Matt Day, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2023
  • The artist needs no cerebral middleman to move the motif from the world to the page.
    — Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
  • In some cases, buyers and middlemen have been forced to sell the gems at a loss.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 30 July 2019
  • Because the truth is, middlemen so often stick out like a sore thumb.
    — Eran Mizrahi, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Their model has been about artists first and cutting out the middleman.
    — Taylor Mims, Billboard, 17 Jan. 2020
  • And cutting out the middleman helps small farmers who show up to sell their meat in a big way.
    — Amiel Stanek, Bon Appetit, 25 Jan. 2017
  • There are dozens of competitors for that smart-middleman role, though.
    — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • Go from being the middleman to the actual sole sort of point of sale.
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 28 Apr. 2026
  • My understanding of this in a way is to cut out the middleman.
    — Julia Chatterley, CNN, 5 May 2021
  • Now, Wattpad is cutting out the middleman.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 26 Nov. 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
  • Scrap prices are set by middlemen who control access to buyers.
    — CNN Money, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Pinilla, acting as the middleman, stayed in touch with the politician.
    — Jay Weaver, miamiherald, 19 May 2018
  • 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
  • The companies are paid back by middlemen who sell the drugs to the pharmacies.
    — Fran Kritz, Verywell Health, 20 June 2023
  • Soon Akasha had cut out the middleman and was having the shipments sent to friends under fake names.
    — Andy Greenberg, Wired News, 22 May 2025
  • This eliminates the need for a bulky middleman encoder.
    — ArsTechnica, 3 June 2026
  • Fire the bankers and cut out the Wall Street middlemen sucking value.
    — Drew Warshaw, New York Daily News, 16 Apr. 2026
  • But instead, consumers got an army of middleman marketers.
    — Noah Dormady, The Conversation, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Shares of the health-care middleman have trounced the S & P 500 over the past five years.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 14 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • The best cocktail dresses are the middlemen of the formalwear world.
    — Elly Leavitt, Vogue, 31 July 2025

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