as in janitors
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 gatekeepers
Many YouTube creators view the studio executives as gatekeepers, the old guard that once held sway over what got made and what didn’t.
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Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2025
As the genres have grown in popularity, the gatekeepers have continued to tighten their parameters — but the truth is, experimentation is what makes rock music in all its forms… rock.
—Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 14 Oct. 2025
For years, people have relied on agents as the gatekeepers of information.
—Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
The idea didn’t make it past the gatekeepers; Spain’s federation and FIFA both shot it down.
—Asli Pelit, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
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
Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2025
As the genres have grown in popularity, the gatekeepers have continued to tighten their parameters — but the truth is, experimentation is what makes rock music in all its forms… rock.
—Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 14 Oct. 2025
For years, people have relied on agents as the gatekeepers of information.
—Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
The idea didn’t make it past the gatekeepers; Spain’s federation and FIFA both shot it down.
—Asli Pelit, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gatekeepers
Noun
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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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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
Noun
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In service jobs, Black workers labored as porters, chauffeurs, and servers; in manufacturing plants, white supremacist pseudoscience was harnessed to justify forcing Black workers to perform the most difficult and dangerous work.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Oct. 2025
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The shelters were once primarily used for summer hiking trips, when porters stocked them with food, drinks, and supplies.—
Scott Yorko,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Oct. 2025
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“Gatekeepers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gatekeepers. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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