grantsmanship
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of grantsmanship
An Americanism dating back to 1960–65; grant + -s 3 + -manship
Example Sentences
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The first step in mastering grantsmanship is picking a field that the grant givers consider hot.
From Time Magazine Archive
That's in part because Cianci mastered the art of federal grantsmanship and leveraged municipal bonds.
From Time Magazine Archive
An expert in the game of grantsmanship, with a Ph.D. in economics from Iowa State, Henderson is a man of fearsome energy.
From Time Magazine Archive
One cause of the growing shortage of college teachers is a "crisis in values" that has infected a generation of young scholars with "the crassest opportunism in grantsmanship, job hopping and wheeling-dealing."
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