grantsman
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who practices and is skilled at grantsmanship.
Example Sentences
- "The professor who is very good at coming up with proposals that get funded is sometimes called a “grantsman,” particularly when the professor brings in enough money to hire a large staff of researchers. The name can be derogatory because it suggests a scientist who is concerned more with keeping the money flowing in and building an “empire” than with solving a particular research problem."
- "A new breed of scientist began to emerge,—the grantsmen,—people whose skills lay not so much in doing good science, but in tuning into the perceptions of the peer group."