What's the difference between dealer and middleman?

Dealer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who deals; one who has to do, or has concern, with others; esp., a trader, a trafficker, a shopkeeper, a broker, or a merchant; as, a dealer in dry goods; a dealer in stocks; a retail dealer.
  • (n.) One who distributes cards to the players.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Koons provoked a bigger stir with the news that he would be showing with gallery owner David Zwirner next year in an apparent defection from Zwirner's arch-rival Larry Gagosian, the world's most powerful art dealer.
  • (2) Modern art was interpreted in the catalogue as a conspiracy by Russian Bolsheviks and Jewish dealers to destroy European culture.
  • (3) Dealers speculated that Facebook's army of bankers had stepped in to stop the shares falling below $38, a move that would have landed the social network with a public relations disaster on its first day as a public company.
  • (4) Several months ago, the man received about $200,000 worth of marijuana from the cartel and delivered it to another dealer, but he could not repay the cartel, according to court papers.
  • (5) As Bernard Levin noted in 1977 when she was playing Lady Macbeth and Lady Plyant in Congreve's The Double Dealer at the National: "She is tiny.
  • (6) In the latest round of the epic divorce battle between Michelle and Scot Young, the judge, Mr Justice Moor, is making a fresh attempt to discover how much the property dealer is worth.
  • (7) Another officer grabbing Mann by the collar and threatening his family – to arrest his wife’s “black ass” and ensure he would not see his young son grow up, Mann recalled in an interview – if he did not snitch on a heroin dealer.
  • (8) He told the court: “We have been trying at the bar to imagine whether we can think of any other group of legal or natural persons, terrorist suspects, arms dealers, Jews, in respect of whose evidence one might even begin to think that one could tenably say, ‘Well, of course, in looking at this evidence I have been very careful because I know from the past that these people are a bit devious and a bit unworthy, and the only thing they’re really interested in is subverting public health.’ ” Yet last week’s judgment, running to 1,000 paragraphs, confirmed in excoriating detail just how determined big tobacco has been down the decades to achieve precisely this goal.
  • (9) Noda also stepped up the monitoring of foreign exchange positions held by currency dealers.
  • (10) So President Mujica may be thinking: "why not take the risk and embrace the possibility of becoming the first marijuana hero and the man who thwarted drug dealers?"
  • (11) New methods were developed in collaboration with "problem kennels" (animal homes, dealer kennels etc.
  • (12) Del Seymour knows all about the pimps, drug dealers and vagrants of San Francisco’s Tenderloin district – because he used to be one of them.
  • (13) If we are going to break the drug dealer’s model, we need to smash demand,” Keenan said.
  • (14) Dealers desperately want to believe in the German plan so bond yields fell in Italy and Spain yesterday on expectations that Sarkozy and Merkel will settle any remaining differences on Monday, the ECB will cut interest rates on Thursday and the Brussels summit will agree a Grand Bargain on Friday.
  • (15) She told the court that Tomaszewski had told him a “heavy drug dealer” lived at the house.
  • (16) But Rubio’s Pac, Reclaim America, hopes to benefit from wealthy individual donors including the Miami car dealer Norman Braman, the former owner of the Philadelphia Eagles, who is believed to have pledged at least $10m.
  • (17) Poverty is a powerful - if often indirect - recruiter for terrorism and both the Taliban and the drugs dealers often pay good money.
  • (18) Milliken, author of a report on rhino-horn consumption in Vietnam , also expressed concerns about the end-user market: "One wonders if unscrupulous dealers in these markets will not simply employ some means to 'bleach' them to back to a 'normal' appearance and continue raking in high profits."
  • (19) He stepped in to support Keogh’s credentials, saying: “He’s actually put drug dealers behind bars.” “As I understand it, the current maximum penalty is 25 years,” he said.
  • (20) But to enjoy it like a local, give the tourist-tat main road a miss and dive into the snarl of side streets, where wheeler-dealers hawk everything from rusty doorknobs to 17th-century art.

Middleman


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A person of intermediate rank; a commoner.
  • (n.) The man who occupies a central position in a file of soldiers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That’s an open debate.” Some on the cities’ side want the department for communities and local government abolished, seeing it as an obstructive middleman, while their Charter for Local Freedom calls for an independent body to oversee the transfer of powers.
  • (2) Culture secretary Sajid Javid has said that ticket touts are “classic entrepreneurs” and their detractors are the “chattering middle classes and champagne socialists, who have no interest in helping the common working man earn a decent living by acting as a middleman”.
  • (3) It is time to cut out the middleman, releasing the money that is presently being wasted and transferring control of employment support to those who know how it can be used best – disabled people and employers."
  • (4) But coyote is also used to denote a middleman, particularly one who takes advantage of unwitting farmers.
  • (5) Thom Yorke called the company "the last desperate fart of a dying corpse" in 2013, telling his peers that "I feel like as musicians we need to fight the Spotify thing", suggesting that the company is just another (unwanted) middleman in the music industry.
  • (6) Syrian-born middleman Wafic Said handled multimillion pound commissions on the deal.
  • (7) Yesterday's admissions by the Tanzanian middleman, Sailesh Vithlani, led Ms Short to call for BAE's prosecution if the allegations were proved.
  • (8) The court heard how BAE had hired the Tanzanian middleman, Sailesh Vithlani, to secure the radar contract and gave him $12.4m (£8m) over five years – a third of the contract's value.
  • (9) In one long-running battle against a rich banker, who sued them over the fit and layout of his £12m One Hyde Park apartment, it was revealed they hired a private detective to pose as a middleman for the Saudi royal family to dig for dirt on their own customer.
  • (10) As such he is considered a possible middleman between the British government and the Trump administration.
  • (11) Alibaba, which has its headquarters in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, does not sell products directly but acts as an electronic middleman.
  • (12) Italian prosecutors claim that the deal to supply the Indian air force with 12 AW101 helicopters - so-called VVIP models used to fly heads of state - involved kickbacks and the use of a British middleman, Christian Michel.
  • (13) The middlemen then mix the bags together to sell to smelters and companies such as Timah, or "whoever's offering the higher price", says Fitriyadi, 39, a middleman who operates from his home in south Bangka.
  • (14) But finding a suitable middleman is no easy task, with the Obama administration immersed in bigger global crises and doggedly pursuing a policy of “strategic patience” with the North, which essentially means not getting drawn into engagements that might be seen as bowing to North Korean pressure.
  • (15) The piece was highly critical of the methods used in previous stings by Mazher Mahmood – the so-called "Fake Sheikh" behind the sensational News of the World claim that a middleman accepted £150,000 to correctly predict the exact time when no-balls would be bowled.
  • (16) Someone has to absorb the hit, be it the brand, supplier, middleman, retailer or consumer.
  • (17) He began trading on this connection to the Saudi royal family and was soon pulling in commissions of hundreds of millions of dollars a year acting as a middleman for American companies such as Lockheed, Northrop, Raytheon and Boeing.
  • (18) He paid a middleman two years ago to smuggle him across the border into Thailand and find him a job in a factory.
  • (19) The porn turned out to be easy to repel: because they contained affiliate links (where a middleman was getting paid for each clickthrough and signup), "Trust & Safety" assigned someone to contact the porn sites, getting affiliates' accounts cancelled for bad behaviour.
  • (20) A captain is primarily an off-the-field middleman between the team and the manager, and at times the media.