as in janitor
a person who tends a door those who are hopelessly unhip have little chance of making past the club's gatekeeper and his velvet rope

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Recent Examples of gatekeeper Ricamora also wants to redirect conversations about representation toward industry gatekeepers. Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 Oct. 2025 Universities largely held a monopoly over knowledge production and served as the primary gatekeepers of intellectual legitimacy, until the digital revolution dramatically decentralized access to knowledge and its production. Chris Wegemer, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2025 The audience is out there; the gatekeepers just aren’t always the ones who connect you to them. Courtney Marsh, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2025 Who are the gatekeepers of ‘cool’ anyway? Ilana Kaplan, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gatekeeper
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Noun
  • In Season 1, Gillory was a janitor at the LAPD but become a full-time consultant after solving a murder case and impressing everyone with her IQ of 160.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Low-wage service workers, including cleaners, janitors, security guards, cafeteria workers and other staffers who keep buildings operating, are often out of luck.
    Matt Egan, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2025
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  • He got married, had kids, and worked a job as a porter at Broadway theaters.
    Luke Cyphers, Sportico.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Picardo was most recently president and CEO of Holt Renfrew, and has previously held management roles at retailers and brands including Lane Crawford, Burberry, Net-a-porter and Alexander McQueen.
    Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 10 Oct. 2025

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“Gatekeeper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gatekeeper. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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