What's the difference between middleman and middlemen?
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.
Middlemen
Definition:
(pl. ) of Middleman
Example Sentences:
(1) They also claim their electricity and water were cut off, despite frequent official complaints to police, who Lessena said served as middlemen between the owners and the tenants.
(2) In neighbouring Honduras , a group of farmers who were tired of seeing the lion's share of their produce go to middlemen decided three years ago to work with buyers in the country's largest city, San Pedro Sula, selling directly to supermarkets and fast-food chains, to offer a steady supply of lettuce, tomatoes, broccoli and other vegetables.
(3) Retailers stood accused of hiding behind middlemen to get clothes made for the cheapest price with little regard for workers' pay and conditions.
(4) More arrests could follow as police widen their investigation into illegal betting and the alleged use of middlemen with ties to organised crime.
(5) I think that a subset of my listeners pay for my music, and that is a-ok because...and this is the key.....there are few middlemen between us."
(6) And civil libertarians object to having the phone companies act as middlemen for mass surveillance.
(7) How can you interview a client without reviewing the documents in your file?” The referral fees paid to Iraqi middlemen in the case risked corrupting the justice system, Dutton told the tribunal.
(8) The bribes were allegedly paid to middlemen to speed up planning permission applications for the construction of new stores across Mexico, its fastest-growing market, where it employs 209,000 people.
(9) In the US settlement, which did not name the middlemen used to pay bribes, Rolls-Royce admitted that: In Thailand, its employees hired intermediaries to help it secure contracts with PTT, the state-owned energy company.
(10) They interact with another layer of middlemen – the sponsors or kafeels who are able to supply work visas.
(11) The engineering giant Rolls-Royce has apologised after it was found to have paid bribes including a luxury car and millions of pounds’ worth of cash to middlemen to secure orders in six countries, including Indonesia, Russia and China.
(12) From the poacher there follows a series of middlemen buyers, exporters and couriers.
(13) GSK is alleged to have used a network of more than 700 middlemen and travel agencies in China to bribe doctors and lawyers.
(14) We can only try to free them on a case-by-case basis.” Some women have been exchanged for ransoms in deals usually brokered by Arab middlemen.
(15) That would allow them to cut out the middlemen delivering ads that the ad blockers target.
(16) Newspapers rely on middlemen for most of their distribution and the financial problems of the industry are unlikely to go away even when the economy gets out of recession.
(17) 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.
(18) Its investigators started to get close to the Saudi royal family, uncovering evidence of huge sums being paid to Swiss bank accounts linked to middlemen including the well-connected billionaire Wafic Said.
(19) Arms deals – undertaken by governments, their intelligence agencies, large and small manufacturers, middlemen, dealers and financiers – stretch across a continuum of legality and ethics from the official, or formal trade, to the grey and black markets, which I call the shadow world.
(20) Many workers arrive in Qatar heavily in debt, having paid huge sums to middlemen to secure contracts in the fast-growing Gulf state.