Middleman in a sentence as a noun

They could go to the same shop-online and drop-ship model, and cut out a middleman.

In this scenario, the consumer and the driver lose due to a corrupt middleman.

Amazon's not a middleman?Of course they are, they just happen to be the biggest one, capable of eating all the others.

The internet's magic is enabling disintermediation -- as the tenant, I was the middleman, and my lease gave him a way to cut me out.

Now, there is a massive Facebook middleman, with all of the decision making power, wedged between Oculus and developers.

If each of those can be aggregated into some other kind of service, where Uber, Lyft, etc. are just providers of payment processing, and possibly some operations expertise, that middleman network will capture all of the value.

You can easily and asynchronously discuss and agree on topics in a transparent manner with one or more participants, again: with an open and decentralized technology, no middleman anywhere.

First there's quality-control: the #1 thing that's going to wreck your relationship with a laundry customer is if you mess up their clothes, and if all the clothes-handling is outsourced, how much can you do to prevent that from happening?And second, if all the value you bring to the table is a thin layer of code over someone else's service, at some point that someone else will just write their own app and cut out the middleman.

Not everybody is Shakespeare, and not everybody has to be Carmack, but that doesn't mean to just leave it to the "experts".Kicking out the ladder under you and being the middleman for what you found in the tree is a game old as dirt, and I think one nice step to help improving the physical world would be to stop repeating its worst mistakes in the "virtual" one./end rant.. no, wait:A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.

Middleman definitions

noun

someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers

See also: jobber wholesaler

noun

the performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages the others in talk

See also: interlocutor

noun

a person who is in a position to give you special assistance; "he used his business contacts to get an introduction to the governor"

See also: contact