mid·dle·man

[mid-l-man]
noun, plural mid·dle·men.
1.
a person who plays an economic role intermediate between producer and retailer or consumer.
2.
a person who acts as an intermediary.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English: maker of girdles; see middle, man1

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middleman (ˈmɪdəlˌmæn) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n , pl -men
1.  an independent trader engaged in the distribution of goods from producer to consumer
2.  an intermediary
3.  theatre the interlocutor in minstrel shows

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Middleman is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
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middleman
in the trading sense, 1795, from middle+ man.
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Example sentences
Let the middleman go, that is the only solution to this problem.
Same transactions, but no psychic toll or middleman in between.
But in this case, the scientists avoided the middleman cell.
As any good criminal should, they have a middleman to provide plausible
  deniability.
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