(n.) A dealer in the public stocks or funds; a stockjobber.
(n.) One who buys goods from importers, wholesalers, or manufacturers, and sells to retailers.
(n.) One who turns official or public business to private advantage; hence, one who performs low or mercenary work in office, politics, or intrigue.
Example Sentences:
(1) The amounts being spent are eye-popping, and enough to sustain a huge array of contractors and political jobbers,” said Antony Goldman, head of Nigeria-focused PM Consulting .
(2) In a report last month, the TUC noted that pensioners, part-time workers and "odd-jobbers" were the fastest-growing groups among the new self-employed workforce.
(3) First, between market jobbers ("the people making the price, like bookies at a race course") and stockbrokers ("who go round trying to get the best price"), and second, between commercial and investment banks, both of which were kept separate for decades, but collapsed into one with the "Big Bang" of 1986.
(4) All this has been boiled down to talk about a new crop of "odd-jobbers" – but there's something more important going on, so far undocumented in official statistics: the accelerated conversion of proper jobs into a mess of "self-employment" that's completely fraudulent.
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.