Meaning

2 senses
  1. An intermediary or middleman.

    She's the go-between for engineering and manufacturing, so you'll have to ask her if you need to coordinate between the groups.

  2. A shogi piece, used in chu shogi and larger shogi variants, that can move one step straight forward or straight backwards.

More definitions
  • a negotiator who acts as a link between parties

Translations

3 languages

Origin

Deverbal from go between.

Deverbal from go between.

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Forms

plural: go-betweens
Singulargo-between
Pluralgo-betweens

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Relatedgo between

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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