Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A reporter whose job is to gather information at the scene of an event or from various news sources.
- noun An assistant who performs tasks such as gathering information or running errands, especially outside the workplace.
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- noun A
reporter who travels to thescene of anevent tointerview witnesses etc. - noun An
office errand boy
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Examples
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Starting in the '40s as a legman for Drew Pearson's Washington Merry-Go-Round column of gossip and scandal, Anderson had absolute faith in himself as a righteous scourge, even if he had to pay bribes and root through other people's garbage cans to get scoops.
The dirty dance between Anderson and Nixon Evan Thomas 2010
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The guy who could have been the Big Foot was happy to be the legman for a younger colleague.
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Starting in the '40s as a legman for Drew Pearson's Washington Merry-Go-Round column of gossip and scandal, Anderson had absolute faith in himself as a righteous scourge, even if he had to pay bribes and root through other people's garbage cans to get scoops.
The dirty dance between Anderson and Nixon Evan Thomas 2010
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This was a big break for Anderson, who was then the chief legman for columnist Drew Pearson.
A new book reveals depths of columnist Jack Anderson's anti-Nixon tactics 2010
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Starting as a legman for the patrician, ruthless Pearson and then on his own, Anderson drew first blood on most of the scandals that tainted Nixon almost from the start.
The Best of Enemies 2010
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He had sold ladies 'underwear, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners and encyclopedias door to door; he had been a short order cook, elevator operator, puddler in a steel mill, seaman, carnival shill, bulldozer operator, printer's devil and legman for a radio station.
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Malden's character in the program, Mike Stone, employed a legman played by Art Metrano with that name, who did various errands.
Archive 2009-06-28 Toby O'B 2009
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Three days after Ray had been sentenced, he said he had been framed -- he was just a "" legman, '' he insisted, recruited by a mysterious drug dealer named Raoul.
Death Of An Assassin 2008
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He worked as a legman, or stringer, for a local newspaper before, at the age of 21, securing a post as department-store credit manager, a position he held for over a decade and which gave him an unparalleled insight into the psyche of his fellow men.
Archive 2008-02-01 Ed Gorman 2008
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He worked as a legman, or stringer, for a local newspaper before, at the age of 21, securing a post as department-store credit manager, a position he held for over a decade and which gave him an unparalleled insight into the psyche of his fellow men.
Howard Browne Ed Gorman 2008
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