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4 words match “GO-BETWEEN”

GO-BETWEEN n.
An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- usually in a disparaging sense. Shak.
MEAN n.
A mediator; a go-between. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. He wooeth her by means and by brokage. Chaucer. By all means, certainly; without fail; as, go, by all means. -- By any means, in any way; possibly; at all. If by any means I might attain to the resurrection of the dead. Phil. iii. ll. -- By no means, or By no manner of m…
MIDDLEMAN 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.
PROXENETISM n.
The action of a go-between or broker in negotiating immoral bargains between the sexes; procuring.