How to pronounce “straw man”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A doll or scarecrow, particularly one stuffed with straw.
• (figurative) An innocuous person or someone of nominal or lesser importance, as a front man or straw boss.
• (figurative) An insubstantial concept, idea, endeavor or argument, particularly one deliberately set up to be weakly supported, e.g. by misrepresenting an opponent's argument by broadening or narrowing the scope of a premise, so that it can be easily knocked down; especially to impugn the strength of any related or contrasted thing or idea.
• (figurative, engineering, business) An outline serving as an initial proposal for a project, usually refined iteratively.
• Synonym of straw buyer.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To falsely attribute an insubstantial argument (a straw man argument) to another through direct declaration or indirect implication; to put words in someone's mouth.

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