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[ goh-bi-tween ] / ˈgoʊ bɪˌtwin / SEE SYNONYMS FOR go-between ON THESAURUS.COM
nouna person who acts as an agent or intermediary between persons or groups; emissary. Origin of go-betweenFirst recorded in 1590–1600; noun use of verb phrase go between SYNONYMS FOR go-betweenmiddleman, negotiator, deputy, envoy, liaison; mediator, arbitrator. SEE SYNONYMS FOR go-between ON THESAURUS.COM Words nearby go-betweengobby, go begging, Gobelin, go belly-up, go berserk, go-between, Gobi, Gobian, Gobi burin, Gobind Singh, gobioid Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 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
nouna person who acts as agent or intermediary for two people or groups in a transaction or dealing Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to go-betweenemissary, negotiator, mediator, arbitrator, liaison, messenger, proxy, intermediary, matchmaker, intermediator, attorney, medium, deputy, intercessor, envoy, broker, entrepreneur, referee, representative, factor |