Home › Words › G › grantsmangrantsmangrantsman means one who practices and is skilled at grantsmanship.EtymologyFrom grant + -s- + -man.nounOne who practices and is skilled at grantsmanship.e.g.“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.” — 2003, Donald R Forsdyke, Tomorrow's Cures Today?: How to Reform the Health Research:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).