landed the contract

[GoodTaste]

I understand "landed the contract" as "won the contract" since dictionaries offer a definition read "come to rest a condition." The nuance here is elusive to me.

What does "land" mean here?

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Two months later, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded the same company, ResMed, $32 million for ventilators made in Australia to fight COVID-19. Despite that track record – and because of the urgent need for the machines – the manufacturer landed the contract with no competition.

Source: USA Today
https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/n...ud-claims-masks-sanitizer-and-ppe/5352886002/

 

[GoesStation]

See definition 3.

 

[teechar]

since dictionaries offer a definition read "come to rest a condition."

What do you mean by that, and which dictionary says so? Please provide a link.

 

[GoodTaste]

What do you mean by that, and which dictionary says so? Please provide a link.

Land: to come to rest or arrive in a particular place, position, or condition (sometimes fol. by up):to land in trouble; to land up 40 miles from home

Source: Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English

 

[tedmc]

Land: to come to rest or arrive in a particular place, position, or condition (sometimes fol. by up):to land in trouble; to land up 40 miles from home

Source: Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English

See definition 3 in GStation's link: to get something (job or opportunity) that you wanted.

 

[emsr2d2]

since dictionaries offer a definition that reads "come to rest a condition."

Land: to come to rest or arrive in a particular place, position, or condition (sometimes fol. by up):to land in trouble; to land up 40 miles from home

Source: Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English

Can you see how your paraphrasing of the definition was misleading? If you quote a definition, quote it word for word, in full.

 

[GoodTaste]

Can you see how your paraphrasing of the definition was misleading? If you quote a definition, quote it word for word, in full.

I guess my missing out "in" was misleading.