middleman

Other forms of middleman

plural

middlemans·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about middleman

What does middleman mean?

middleman means "someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in middleman?

middleman has 3 syllables: midd-le-man. The stress falls on "midd". In IPA it is /ˈmɪdəlˌmæn/.

What is another word for middleman?

Close synonyms include jobber, wholesaler, interlocutor, contact. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is middleman a common word?

middleman is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with middleman?

35 words rhyme with middleman. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.