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as in porter
a person who tends a door
according to popular Christian tradition, St. Peter acts as janitor at heaven's pearly gates
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Recent Examples of janitor
The janitors who clean their classrooms don’t have a four-year limit before being forced to find another job.
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Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 June 2025
Over a decades-long tenure at SEIU, Huerta oversaw organizing campaigns involving thousands of janitors and other service workers.
—Max Zahn, ABC News, 10 June 2025
At 55, Goodall worked as a middle school janitor in Terre Haute, Ind.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 27 May 2025
Those outside the Lloyd Kaufman fan club may still be curious to see Peter Dinklage in the title role of a meek slob janitor who starts really cleaning up the city after an accident with radioactive waste transforms him into a deformed vigilante.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 20 May 2025
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Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 June 2025
Over a decades-long tenure at SEIU, Huerta oversaw organizing campaigns involving thousands of janitors and other service workers.
—Max Zahn, ABC News, 10 June 2025
At 55, Goodall worked as a middle school janitor in Terre Haute, Ind.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 27 May 2025
Those outside the Lloyd Kaufman fan club may still be curious to see Peter Dinklage in the title role of a meek slob janitor who starts really cleaning up the city after an accident with radioactive waste transforms him into a deformed vigilante.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 20 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for janitor
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The asset manager has evolved from a portfolio custodian to a business unit leader—closer to the CEO of the asset than to an administrator.—
Aurele Gouy,
Forbes.com,
7 July 2025
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The shooting claimed the lives of head of school Katherine Koonce, 59; custodian Mike Hill, 61; substitute teacher Cynthia Peak, 61; and third-graders Evelyn Dieckhaus, William Kinney and Hallie Scruggs, the Covenant Presbyterian pastor’s daughter.—
Evan Mealins,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
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Home to eight of the world’s ten highest peaks, a dense network of trails, and an unrivaled trekking infrastructure of lodges, guides, and porters, Nepal is perhaps the world’s ultimate hiking destination.—
Bradley Mayhew,
Outside Online,
2 July 2025
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Players start out making these deliveries on foot — inspired by the real-life traditional Japanese porters known as Bokka.—
Hayes Madsen,
Rolling Stone,
23 June 2025
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Wyatt Kaiser is 22 and looks like a keeper.—
Mark Lazerus,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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Callender was back in his usual role as Inter Miami’s starting keeper on Sunday night against Toronto FC at Chase Stadium.—
Andre Fernandez,
Miami Herald,
7 Apr. 2025
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Alyson had served as senior warden at All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Lauderdale and was a trustee of Sewanee: The University of the South, the Episcopal college in Tennessee where Josephine had graduated.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
11 July 2025
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The warden of the facility then ordered a shakedown at the former cell, where a powdery substance was found hidden in the bed of one of the inmates, according to the report.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
25 June 2025
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The group also has planted dozens of trees and restored a 100-year-old caretaker’s cottage.—
Kenneth R. Gosselin,
Hartford Courant,
6 July 2025
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In 2019, the Brown family sued White,his parents and his medical caretakers for failing to realize how White's disorder could result in harm to others and not properly controlling his behavior.—
Maryam Ahmed,
Austin American Statesman,
3 July 2025
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“Janitor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/janitor. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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