(middlemen)
1.
A ~ is a person or company which buys things from the people who produce them and sells them to the people who want to buy them. (BUSINESS)
Why don’t they cut out the ~ and let us do it ourselves?
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2.
A ~ is a person who helps in negotiations between people who are unwilling to meet each other directly.
The two sides would only meet indirectly, through middlemen.
= go-between
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