meat packer vs middleman

meat packer and middleman both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
meat packer	Yes	No	No	No
middleman	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, middleman is a hypernym of meat packer; that is, middleman is a word with a broader meaning than meat packer:

meat packer: a wholesaler in the meat-packing business
middleman: someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers

Other hypernyms of meat packer include jobber, wholesaler.

meat packer (noun)	middleman (noun)
a wholesaler in the meat-packing business	a person who is in a position to give you special assistance
	someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers
	the performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages the others in talk