Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A man who lives or serves on land: opposed to seaman.
- noun In English law, a tenant or occupant of land; a terre-tenant.
- noun A farmer or countryman.
- noun A landowner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A man who lives or serves on land; -- opposed to
seaman . - noun (Eng.) An occupier of land.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone who lives or works on
land , as opposed to aseaman .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who lives and works on land
Etymologies
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Examples
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Against his wife's advice, he called the landman in February 2010.
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Against his wife's advice, he called the landman in February 2010.
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Haynesville Shale Mineral Rights Lawyer, is providing attorney services for Louisiana landowners who have already leased their mineral rights to an oil and gas company, lease broker or "landman" and feel they were taken advantage by being put into a "bad" lease.
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George went back to being a landman in the oil business, going to an office every day, and I began to set up our new home.
Spoken from the Heart Laura Bush 2010
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George went back to being a landman in the oil business, going to an office every day, and I began to set up our new home.
Spoken from the Heart Laura Bush 2010
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I knew a landman for the Hunt Bros and they laundered money through his strawman real estate deals.
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A former petroleum landman in East Texas, Swann and his artist wife of 25 years live in the small town of El Cortijo, Mexico, about eight miles outside of San Miguel de Allende in the state of Guanajuato.
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Over the years he worked as a landman for Sinclair Oil Company, pipeliner, land surveyor, newspaper reporter, college English professor, social worker on Skid Row in Los Angeles, clerk for the Louisiana Employment Service, and instructor in the U. S. Job Corps.
Happy Birthday, James Lee Burke! Bill Crider 2006
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Over the years he worked as a landman for Sinclair Oil Company, pipeliner, land surveyor, newspaper reporter, college English professor, social worker on Skid Row in Los Angeles, clerk for the Louisiana Employment Service, and instructor in the U. S. Job Corps.
Archive 2006-12-03 Bill Crider 2006
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