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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A trader who buys from producers and sells to retailers or consumers.
  • n. An intermediary; a go-between.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An intermediary, agent between two (or more) parties
  • n. An intermediate dealer between the manufacturer and the retailer or customer
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An agent between two parties; a broker; a go-between; any dealer between the producer and the consumer; in Ireland, one who takes land of the proprietors in large tracts, and then rents it out in small portions to the peasantry.
  • n. A person of intermediate rank; a commoner.
  • n. The man who occupies a central position in a file of soldiers.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who acts as an intermediary between others in any matter; an intermediate lessee, contractor, negotiator, trader, broker, etc.; specifically, one who buys merchandise in bulk to sell it in smaller quantities to other traders or to retail dealers; in Ireland, a lessee of a tract of land who sublets it in parcels at an advanced rate to actual tenants or occupiers; more generally, any one who acts as a buyer and seller, or undertaker for profit, between producers or principals and consumers, users, or executants.
  • n. A man of intermediate rank; a commoner.
  • n. In the fisheries, a planter.
  • n. In negro minstrelsy, the man who sits in the middle of the semicircle of performers during the opening part of the entertainment, and leads the dialogue between songs.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a person who is in a position to give you special assistance
  • n. someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers
  • n. the performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages the others in talk
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    representative    minstrel   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    broker    go-between    commoner    intermediary    regrater   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    speculator    bowline    broker    consignor   
     
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