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- noun Plural form of
middleman .
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Examples
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The main problem with being the middlemen is the same problem the buggy whip makers had when automobiles came out.
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The idea of middlemen is that they get a cut of your earnings but in exchange do a lot to help you become famous and popular.
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The best way to get value for your books, without paying middlemen is to trade them directly for others you covet.
A Site Where you can Trade Rare Books and First Editions? 2009
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The idea of middlemen is that they get a cut of your earnings but in exchange do a lot to help you become famous and popular.
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I hope the new Administration creates a universal single-payer system that cuts the insurance company middlemen from the mix.
Live Blog: Daschle Returns to the Senate - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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If you had some mechanism by which to exclude certain middlemen from caching your content — I†™ m looking at you, Google— you†™ d have leverage to encourage those middlemen to cache your content only on your terms.
A principle: I have a right to know when I am read « BuzzMachine 2005
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After the Meiji restoration wholesalers (what we would know as middlemen) took over and started the idea of craftsmen, and apprentices set up in factories where a range of different products could be made (Still handmade though).
Archive 2008-04-01 Elizabeth McClung 2008
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After the Meiji restoration wholesalers (what we would know as middlemen) took over and started the idea of craftsmen, and apprentices set up in factories where a range of different products could be made (Still handmade though).
Japan April 3-4 (Day 3-4): Samurai Houses & swords, Kabazaiku, Ghibli and Sakura Tokyo. Elizabeth McClung 2008
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Sometimes, the media middlemen are there for a reason ….
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There was a class of men, termed middlemen, in Ireland, who took large farms on long leases from gentlemen of landed property, and let the land again in small portions to the poor, as under-tenants, at exorbitant rents.
Castle Rackrent 2006
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