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gatekeeper
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who guards or monitors passage through a gate 2 A person or group who controls access to something or somebody 3 A common orange and brown butterfly with eyespots, ''Pyronia tithonus'', of the Nymphalidae family.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A gatekeeper is a person who controls access to something, for example via a city gate . In the late 20th century the term came into metaphorical use, referring to individuals who decide whether a given message will be distributed by a mass medium .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who controls access to something; "there are too many gatekepers between the field officers and the chief" someone who guards an entrance [syn: doorkeeper , doorman , door guard , hall porter , porter , ostiary ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, from gate (n.) + keeper . Figurative use by 1872.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Law schools are the gatekeepers of the profession. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ An offering for the gatekeeper of hell. ▪ Looking back he saw that she was pleading with the gatekeeper , who continued to shake his head. ▪ Many ...
Usage examples of gatekeeper.
First, the consumer must get past denials of its customer service gatekeepers.
The bribe should have been at least ten dinars, but by feigning stupidity until the last possible moment, the driver forced the gatekeeper to weigh the chances of getting a larger bribe from the loudly honking sheik in the sand car behind who seemed about to take his business to the next booth over against the possibility of losing a profit entirely on this cycle of the lock.
There was a coterie of wardersa gloved private gatekeeper in a blue uniform with the sanatorium crest, plus a sturdy middle-aged plainclothesman in a sensible vested suit and a greatcoat and a velour hat, and a bright young fellow in a sportcoat and topper whom Michaelmas recognized as a minor UNAC press staff man.
The gatekeeper had told one of the vicars that at dawn a man in mourning had handed over a fair-haired girl dressed like a queen, but she had learned nothing more about her because just at that moment the beggars were fighting over the Palm Sunday cassava soup.
It is a position of trust and honor, and only archmagithose of noble birth who have attained their high rank through years of service and studycan become Gatekeepers.
Enkidu's shouts and bangings brought neither notice nor reply from the gatekeeper, if indeed there were one.
They raced in before the gatekeepers could raise the drawbridges, and thus burst past the first two barbicans.
BODO: (echoing from the Holocron) I am Bodo Baas, Gatekeeper of the Holocron.
At his destination he was met, not by Demi, but by a plump youth in a bulbous washable jacket, son of gatekeeper or gamekeeper.
Eratosthenes nodded to the gatekeeper and walked up the palm-lined entrance toward the central gardens.
The usual protocol is for us to order the consults if the patient does not have an AmeriCare gatekeeper.
At the gates of the railway yards he showed his pass to the gatekeeper and went through to park the Morris outside the restrooms for off-duty firemen and engine drivers.
Guardian spells all over the world would be freaking out, alerting the Gatekeeper and the Council of something like that.
But the gatekeepers didn't appear to be paying any special attention to him.
When the young men at the gate had informed Beau they were there, Beau told the gatekeepers to hold them back for fifteen minutes to give Beau a chance to walk out to where the driveway entered the trees.