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• de Man
  de Man

  noun

  Paul, 1919–83, U.S. literary critic and theorist, born in Belgium.
• de-man
  de-man

  verb

  to reduce the workforce of (a plant, industry, etc)

de Man

American  

[duh man, mahn] / də ˈmæn, ˈmɑn /

noun

1. Paul, 1919–83, U.S. literary critic and theorist, born in Belgium.

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de-man British  

verb

1. to reduce the workforce of (a plant, industry, etc)

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Example Sentences

One of the motherships was a Taiwanese trawler called the Shun de Man 66, according to the Taiwanese law enforcement document reviewed by Reuters.

From Reuters • Oct. 14, 2019

Foucault and Derrida make appearances, as do de Man and John Searle.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 5, 2018

Considered one of the world’s foremost scholars of literature, Professor Hartman was associated with the “Yale School,” a cohort of literary theorists that included Harold Bloom, J. Hillis Miller and Paul de Man.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2016

In 1988, he came to wide notice with a long article in The New Republic about his colleague Paul de Man.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2016

He was first apprenticed to Isaak Swanenburgh; he then passed through the workshops of de Man, Klok and de Hoorn.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various