as in janitors
a person who tends a door
the doorkeeper held the door open for us so we didn't have to put down our packages
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Noun
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The great quarterbacks are janitors for organizational messes, smoothing over the cracks and making a bad team look competent for three hours.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
29 Sep. 2025 -
The Teamsters union includes cooks and other food service workers, as well as groundskeepers, janitors, parking attendants, maintenance workers, mechanics and more.—
Emma McNamee,
Twin Cities,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Of those who stay, more than eighty per cent work in the informal sector—as domestic servants, street hawkers, porters, cleaners.—
Kapil Komireddi,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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Before beginning the ascent, Wyatt and Hofland met about a dozen hikers at the base of the mountain, as well as a dozen more guides or porters.—
Barbie Porter,
Twin Cities,
18 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Who are the gatekeepers of ‘cool’ anyway?—
Ilana Kaplan,
PEOPLE,
1 Oct. 2025
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The market for these films is the audience, not the gatekeepers.—
Dana Harris-Bridson,
IndieWire,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Doorkeepers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doorkeepers. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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