English Dictionary

leg man

名詞

別表記 異形

Alternative form of legman / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see leg, man.

日本語の意味

「legman（脚を使って動く人）」の別表記として用いられ、現場で情報収集やランニング・アレンジといった、足回りの雑用や下っ端的な役割を担う人物を指す。

The leg man delivered the crucial report after spending the morning interviewing witnesses.

取材記者は午前中に目撃者を取材した後、重要な報告を提出した。

意味（1）

Alternative form of legman

https://archive.org/details/stickfulsmyselft00irvi/page/136/mode/1up page 136 This was my abrupt introduction to the system by which most of the live news is handled for the New York evening newspapers … Its continued use has bred up two distinct and separate types of news-specialists—the leg man, who gets the story, but rarely writes it; and the rewrite man, who writes the story but rarely gets it. … https://archive.org/details/stickfulsmyselft00irvi/page/140/mode/1up page 140 City editors rail against these news combines, but it was the instinct of self-preservation that long ago drove the leg men into tight and fast organizations.

意味（2）

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see leg, man.

leg men （ plural ）