Usually means: Misrepresenting argument to easily refute.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. straw man: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. straw man: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. straw man: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. straw man: Collins English Dictionary
  5. straw man: Vocabulary.com
  6. straw-man: Wordnik
  7. straw man: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. straw man: Wiktionary
  9. straw man: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. straw man: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. straw man: Dictionary.com
  12. Straw Man (comics), Straw Man, Straw man (disambiguation), Straw man (dummy), Straw man (law), Straw man, The Straw_Man (film), The Straw Man: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. straw man: Rhymezone
  14. straw man: Free Dictionary
  15. straw man: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. straw man: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. straw man: Law.com Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Straw Man, Straw-man, Straw man (argument): Legal dictionary
  5. Straw-man, Straw man (argument), straw man: Financial dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. straw man: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. straw man: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. straw man: The Skeptic's Dictionary
  2. straw man: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (straw man)

noun:  A doll or scarecrow, particularly one stuffed with straw.
noun:  (figurative) An innocuous person or someone of nominal or lesser importance, as a front man or straw boss.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (figurative, engineering, business) An outline serving as an initial proposal for a project, usually refined iteratively.
noun:  Synonym of straw buyer
verb:  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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