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doormen

noun

plural of doorman

as in janitors

a person who tends a door we tipped the hotel doorman for getting us a cab

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Recent Examples of doormen At the entrance, muscular, mustachioed Sikh doormen wearing immaculate white uniforms with brass buttons and crimson turbans guided me inside what felt like a secluded Indian palace. — Sucheta Rawal, Travel + Leisure, 9 Nov. 2026 The doormen never missed a beat in greeting whoever passed through the main entrance. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Oct. 2026 Armisen and Bill Hader play chatty and heavily accented doormen hell-bent on telling bizarre holiday stories to various tenants. — Jesse Hassenger, Entertainment Weekly, 28 May 2026 That’s the day after the four-year-old contract expires for nearly 34,000 doormen, porters and maintenance workers. — Michelle Kaske, Bloomberg, 25 Mar. 2026 To cope with rising repair and maintenance costs, employees reported that hotel management began reducing service levels and cutting staff, replacing 10 of the hotel’s long-time bellhops and doormen with third-party valets. — Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 2 Mar. 2026 The doormen on East Ninetieth Street looked out for Roger and Andy. — Margaret Moorman, New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2026 Its member organizations include SEIU Healthcare and Locals 1 and 73, representing workers across various industries, including janitors, child care workers, and private security officers and doormen. — A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026

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Shares of Kellermeyer Bergensons Services, whose janitors clean 2 billion square feet of commercial property every day, have been written down to nothing.

— Ellen DiMauro, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2026
Those excluded were primarily nurses, cooks and janitors stationed at state hospitals and prisons.

— Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 25 Sep. 2026

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The union bargains with the Chicago Parking Association, which represents the more than a dozen private parking companies that employ the parking garage attendants, porters and customer service representatives represented by Local 727.

— Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 7 Nov. 2026
The backstory This hotel was originally built in 1902 for the North British Railway company; porters would take guests from their trains to an elevator that led straight to reception.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026

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