Definition of janitor
1 : one who keeps the premises of a building (such as an apartment or office) clean, tends the heating system, and makes minor repairs
2 : doorkeeper
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Examples of janitor in a Sentence
got a job as the night janitor at the elementary school
according to popular Christian tradition, St. Peter acts as janitor at heaven's pearly gates
Recent Examples of janitor from the Web
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In one sitting Lattimore went from talking to a reporter to a student to a teacher to a janitor without a hint of pretension or phoniness.
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Many PHL workers including maintenance staff, janitors, and employees who work directly for airlines belong to labor unions.
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Everything, from paying the teachers and janitors, to funding extracurriculars, to getting children to and from school, depends in some way on state funding.
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Arians sounded out equipment managers, janitors, and members of the women’s volleyball team.
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Marion currently works two full-time jobs, 16 hours each day, working by day at a Popeye’s Louisiana Chicken for about $9.50 an hour and as a janitor at night.
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Richards’s first job after graduating from Brown in 1980 was as a labor organizer, running union campaigns for garment workers, nursing-home workers, and janitors, positions that took her from New Orleans to Houston and Los Angeles.
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Restrictions on American travel will damage hotel and restaurant businesses, shops, and deprive taxi drivers, waiters, hotel janitors and maids, bartenders, guides and others linked to tourism their only means of having independent income.
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The measure could have big impacts on security guards, janitors and food service workers.
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Origin and Etymology of janitor
Latin, from janus arch, gate
JANITOR Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of janitor for English Language Learners
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: a person who cleans a building and makes minor repairs
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: a person who takes care of a building (as a school)
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