landman
- noun
- /ˈlændˌmæn/
- Jargon
:
gestor de tierras
- - Put these on, can't have you runnin' around being a landman wearing disco clothes.
Examples
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This is highlighted by the Tobacco Institute's 1978 publication "The Smoking Controversy: A Perspective," a document Landman described as "one of the most strongly-worded missives issued by the industry before it chose its words more carefully."
Academic text (2011) -
- Like you are my Harvard educated landman.
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I need you to be the landman.
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I got me a new landman.
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You gotta act like a landman.
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And you're the landman, okay?
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- Yeah, well, you know it's kind of hard to be a landman around these parts if you don't know the land or the people.
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- A landman is an expert specialist at getting oil leases.
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More than 1,200 readers have signed a petition calling for his reinstatement, and dozens have written to the executives responsible for his demotion, Jon Landman and James Oestreich, asking for an explanation.
Blog text (12) -
landman is an expert specialist at getting oil leases.
Synonyms
A person who arranges and manages agreements letting companies use land for oil or mineral rights
How Senior
- UK
- Jargon
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Landman combines land ('land') and man ('person') and in the oil and gas world it came to mean the person who arranges deals about land and the oil or gas under it. Think of them as the specialist who talks to owners and signs agreements, so a landman now often manages land rights.
