middleman

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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.

From The Wall Street Journal

Then one day he did something that he, as a middleman, had never done before, he said: He went to Newark International Airport to pick up two of the couriers.

From Los Angeles Times

With Apple playing middleman between Goldman and JPMorgan on the price, a tentative agreement was struck that the portfolio would move at a roughly 7% discount on the outstanding Apple credit-card balances.

From The Wall Street Journal

But the bloc’s ability to enforce the ban will be hampered by the network of storage terminals, middlemen and refineries that obscure the origin of fuel flowing into the continent.

From The Wall Street Journal