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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

Mr. Karatani has been a visiting professor at Columbia University and Yale University, where he was a contemporary of the eminent critics and theorists Paul de Man and Fredric Jameson.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2022

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

That de Man himself was uneasy about the assertion is evident from the fact that he struck it out, and it did not appear in the typescript or printed versions of this letter.

From Salon • Mar. 30, 2014

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