middleman

A sting by the News of the World newspaper paid a middleman - cricket agent Mazhar Majeed - for details of three no-balls.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Alvarez’s intervention work primarily focused on using his gang contacts to help quash disputes and acting as a middleman between people scared to report crimes to police and law enforcement officials, according to Garcia-Leys.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

The companies also coordinated off-exchange egg trades at premium prices, which were submitted to the middleman that tallies the benchmark price.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

Before SpaceX went public, Kahlon made a fortune by acting as a middleman for investors hoping to add the rocket company to their portfolio.

From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2026

I worked as a middleman for Bolo and Daniel for a year.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

The Ga people became middlemen who traded with Europeans.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

Investigators say that scarcity has fuelled increasingly sophisticated paper-leak rackets, linking teachers, middlemen and exam-centre staff.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

Chinese firms also bought banned Nvidia chips from middlemen who routed shipments through other countries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

“The old model of global health assistance was essentially an open-ended subsidy—dollars flowing to overpriced middlemen with minimal accountability and no exit strategy,” a State Department spokesman said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026

In this way the shoreline groups put themselves in the position of classic middlemen, overseeing both European access to Indian products and Indian access to European products.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann