middleman

Converse of object

• eliminate: Willing to pay quizzed the brokers eliminate the middleman.
• pay: You can set up a pay per click campaign yourself and save paying a middleman to do it.
• become: In the 1990s the thief became a middleman - a fence - immensely enriching himself in the process.
• bypass: Certainly, it can bypass the middleman, and there are already several print-related services which attempt to bypass Distributors.
• find: I found a middleman who said he could find someone to make lampshades to my design for an attractive price.
• know: By the 19th century, woolen yarn was being brought in by a middleman known as the ' bump master ' .

Adjective modifier

• unscrupulous: The system aims to eliminate unscrupulous middlemen who were the main conduits for rural exploitation by big landlords.
• other: B ) links producers to other middlemen or the ultimate users of the products.
• corporate: People are generally unaware that most of what they spend on food goes to corporate middlemen, not farmers.
• local: Most growers rely on local middlemen as one-stop shops for inputs, loans and access to markets.
• unnecessary: She will have fresher supplies, and when unnecessary middlemen are cut out the grower will get better and more stable prices.
• exploitative: Often they are denied a better living by trade barriers and exploitative middlemen in the long supply chain from producer to consumer.

Modifies a noun

• quot: Middleman quot noted geico general insurance company probably should be in the insurance.
• fee: We incorporate BVI offshore companies ourselves, which means you cut out the middleman fees and receive fast priority treatment.
• trader: Using a middleman trader called Lucien Dubois the Frenchman was Nardin's only customer for two years.
• mark: The Local Food movement addresses the issue of food miles and middleman mark up.

Noun used with modifier

broker: Without that online commodity trading and broker middleman the broker provides then late tuesday.

Possessives

profit: Mr. Sainsbury deals direct with the producer, both at home and abroad, and thus saves the middleman's profit.

Preposition: in

chain: Often they are denied a better living by trade barriers and exploitative middlemen in the long supply chain from producer to consumer.

Preposition: of

trade: Met operation targets drug middlemen A new squad has been set up by the Metropolitan Police to target the middlemen of the drugs trade.