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
The voluble Pickens began his life in Oklahoma, the son of a landman who leased mineral rights from private landowners and sold them to oil companies.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2022
His father was a landman, someone who secures mineral-rights leases for oil and gas drilling.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 11, 2019
John Doose, a landman for Ursa, told the oil and gas commission in its meeting in Rifle in September that he works hard to listen to residents.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 6, 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 Reilly, S. A.
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
From being sailors and graziers they took to be agriculturists and landmen.
From Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain by Allen, Grant
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