What's the difference between manufacturer and middleman?

Manufacturer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who manufactures.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The recent rise in manufacturing has been welcomed by George Osborne as a sign that his economic policies are bearing fruit.
  • (2) Hoursoglou thinks a shortage of skilled people with a good grounding in core subjects such as maths and science is a potential problem for all manufacturers.
  • (3) The manufacturers, British Aerospace describe it as a "single-seat, radar equipped, lightweight, multi-role combat aircraft, providing comprehensive air defence and ground attack capability".
  • (4) Car manufacturers, for example, are not allowed to insist that buyers only get their car serviced by them.
  • (5) But late last month, Amisom pushed them out of Afgoye, a strategic stronghold 30km from Mogadishu, where Amisom officials say the militants used to manufacture explosives used in attacks on the capital.
  • (6) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
  • (7) The antibacterial effect of lysozyme manufactured in the USSR was studied with respect to 1496 pathogenic strains of different microbial species.
  • (8) This is welcome news but it needs to be borne in mind that the manufacturing sector is still far from racing ahead and serious doubts remain about the strength of demand for manufactured goods over the medium term, particularly once stimulative measures start being withdrawn.
  • (9) After contributions from other investors, she estimates the fund will have between $80m to $100m for projects in infrastructure, health, manufacturing and education.
  • (10) In March, the independent manufacturer of a forthcoming VR gaming headset, the Oculus Rift, was bought by Facebook for $2bn.
  • (11) We conclude that the use of the multi-point calibration procedure presented in this article (based on calibration according to the instructions of the manufacturer and NCCLS EP-9P) greatly improves the intra-laboratory comparability and therefore should be part of multi-centre evaluations.
  • (12) The orchestrated round of warnings from the Obama administration did not impress a coterie of senior Republicans who were similarly paraded on the talk shows, blaming the White House for having brought the country to the brink of yet another "manufactured crisis".
  • (13) British manufacturing increased by 1.3%, with industrial production overall up by 0.8%.
  • (14) Trump might claim that the loss of manufacturing jobs or the influx of illegal immigrants from Mexico is a national security crisis that justifies his invocation of this law, and imposition of the tariff.
  • (15) The effect of different substances partly used as preservatives for the blood storage and at different stages of manufacturing of human blood preparations on the dynamics of nonenzymatic deamidation of commercial protein preparations and on their heat stability was being studied.
  • (16) The air entrainment devices from oxygen masks of four manufacturers (Henleys Medical Supplies Ltd, Vickers Medical, Intersurgical Ltd, C R Bard International Ltd) were studied.
  • (17) Evaluation of lymphocyte phenotype frequencies, functional responses, serum immunoglobulin levels, and autoantibodies was completed for 38 individuals (i.e., 10 families) who were exposed to pentachlorophenol (PCP) in manufacturer-treated log houses.
  • (18) Ninety pharmacists are employed in 13 hospital pharmacies; half of the pharmacists are occupied bb drug product manufacturing.
  • (19) Trawling through the private telephone conversations of royals, politicians and celebrities in the hope of picking up scandalous gossip is not seen as legitimate news gathering and the techniques of entrapment which led to the recent Pakistani match-fixing scandal , although grudgingly admired in this particular case, are derided as manufacturing the news.
  • (20) A certain number of parameters involved in the manufacture, control and use of an efficacious vaccine against foot-and-mouth disease have been studied.

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.