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go-between

[ goh-bi-tween ]

/ ˈgoʊ bɪˌtwin /

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noun

a person who acts as an agent or intermediary between persons or groups; emissary.

Origin of go-between

First recorded in 1590–1600; noun use of verb phrase go between

SYNONYMS FOR go-between

middleman, negotiator, deputy, envoy, liaison; mediator, arbitrator.

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Words nearby go-between

go wrong, go, goes, going, go-ahead, go-around, go-away bird, go-between, go-by, go-cart, go-devil, go-faster stripe, go-forward

Example sentences from the Web for go-between

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there,” L.P. Hartley famously wrote in The Go-Between.

Memory Porn: America’s Obscene Anniversary Obsession |Tim Teeman |June 17, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Universal executive Dylan Clark (who has subsequently resigned to take another position) was forced to act as go-between.

Knives Out for Michael Mann |Kim Masters |June 30, 2009 |DAILY BEAST
There are nearly always the old miser or rake, the go-between slave, the braggart soldier.

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, May 1899 |Various
His own account of his seduction from the paths of poetry by the wiles of philosophy is that physiology acted as the go-between.

English Men of Letters: Coleridge |H. D. Traill

He was pitifully vain of his reputation as a Machiavelli and a go-between.

The Plum Tree |David Graham Phillips
There was nothing unnatural in the idea; such things were, even in Geneva; and Louis was a go-between, not above the task.

The Long Night |Stanley Weyman
It is not uncommon to discover the boy and his spaniel at play with a ball as a go-between.

The Knickerbocker, Vol. 22, No. 5, November 1843 |Various

British Dictionary definitions for go-between

go-between

noun

a person who acts as agent or intermediary for two people or groups in a transaction or dealing