Meanings of many middlemen in English

God only knows how many middlemen may have been involved in the deal!

These entrepreneurs buy data capacity from fixed broadband providers, passing through many middlemen first.

I have an idea that we have too many stores, too many middlemen, too much waste motion.

The Internet offers the promise that consumers won't pay for so many middlemen that drive up CD prices, he said.

That approach may fit in with Amazon's techie faith in disintermediation, the idea that success comes from cutting out as many middlemen as possible.

With so many middlemen, investors had poor information about what they were buying, and capital flowed to loans that arguably should never have been made.