Gender
See -man.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of landman
before 1000; Middle English; Old English landmann. See land, man
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His character, Tommy Norris, is the titular West Texas landman, an oil-company fixer juggling everything from exploding pump jacks and drug-cartel incursions, to tangled mineral-rights leases and constant family distractions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 2025
His father was a landman, someone who secures mineral-rights leases for oil and gas drilling.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 11, 2019
Two Grand Junction, Colo., business partners, for example — a geologist and a former Gulf Oil landman — now control 276,653 acres of federal parcels in northeastern Nevada.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2018
Hebert’s teammate, Kevin Koe, works full time as a surface landman for an oil and gas company, liaising with landowners and farmers.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 25, 2018
No apprentice could be entrusted with a vessel until he was 16 if a waterman's son and 17 if was he the son of a landman, and he had at least two years' experience.
From Our Legal Heritage June 2011 (Sixth) Edition by S. A. Reilly
While some 100 landmen amassed as much land as possible, Comstock started tinkering with techniques to drill more than 3 miles below the surface.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025
In some situations, when residents negotiated for better-than-average lease terms, landmen made them sign nondisclosure agreements that legally forbade sharing information.
From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2018
The bad news is I can’t go out and let our landmen loose on the landowners of the world.
From Forbes ● Apr. 7, 2013
Apart from a few fanatics who sometimes turned up at midnight, the landmen would begin arriving at the courthouse around 6 a.m.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2013
"Yes," responded the skipper, "I presume Stanley is drilling some of those landmen."
From The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World by Paul Boyton
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