landman
noun
landmen
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pluralof landman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
And when the landmen, as oil-lease buyers are called, contacted Rick Davis’s 88-year-old mother, Ruth, this year, he advised her to follow Joe’s dream and take the money.
From New York Times ● Oct. 25, 2011
The mariners said, that if God had not loved the landmen more than the seamen they should never have 422 come off from this danger.
From A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II. by Charles Morton
