Question of the Day #433

"Trump has described the payments his bag man, Michael Cohen, made to two women during the 2016 campaign so they wouldn’t discuss their alleged affairs with him, as 'a simple private transaction'. "
From the first paragraph of this article at The Guardian.

上記の文で、bag manの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "bag man" mean?

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解答

意味：
Weblioによると、


外交員、出張販売人、(不正の金をゆすったり配ったりする)仲介人

問題文の場合は、当然最後の意味です。他の日本語を使えば、「取り立て屋」でもいいかと思います。
また、bagmanやbag-manとも書きます。

Answer

According to The Free Dictionary :

 Slang A person who collects money, as for racketeers.

There are different meanings for the term in Great Britain and Canada so check the link above if you are interested in them.

Examples

• "D—— the luck," says Brown the bagman, who has been backing his lordship with five-franc pieces. THE NEWCOMES|WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
• Roberts served as Ike’s financial adviser and executor, and, after Roberts helped arrange his run for President, as his bagman. — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, "Inside the Cultish Dreamworld of Augusta National," 14 June 2019
• Whatever the answer, Zinke has become a bagman for an administration that wants to cut the program’s funding to a historic low. — Elliott D. Woods, Outside Online, "Ryan Zinke Is Sabotaging Our Best Public Lands Program," 6 June 2018
• Chris Mack has emphatically denied any tie to Miller or Christian Dawkins, the associate-slash- bagman. — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, "Paul Daugherty: Xavier collateral damage in FBI's NCAA basketball probe," 23 Feb. 2018
• And there was this friendly guy who could only be called his bagman. — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, "Where Is the Integrity?," 13 Sep. 2017

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