middleman
Example Sentences
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The plan includes a pledge to remove "kickbacks" to middlemen.
From BBC
He claimed in his essay for us that researchers at Harvard had found that “foreign producers and middlemen, including large corporations that are not from the U.S.” pay “at least 80% of tariff costs.”
Although Starlink isn’t activated in Russia, a black market for user terminals sprung up with middlemen shipping them to Russian forces.
If you buy from a company that manufactures its own mattresses, you can avoid the middleman problem in which the retailer and manufacturer each try to shift responsibility to the other.
From MarketWatch
The falling price of global crude compressed prices, but the decline was largely driven by a web of middlemen and buyers taking advantage of the regime’s precarious position and dependence on oil revenue.
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