Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that is in charge of passage through a gate.
- noun One who monitors or oversees the actions of others.
- noun One who controls access to something, such as information or services.
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- noun A person who guards or monitors passage through a
gate - noun A person or group who controls access to something or somebody
- noun A common orange and brown
butterfly with eyespots, Pyronia tithonus, of theNymphalidae family.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who guards an entrance
- noun someone who controls access to something
Etymologies
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Examples
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Learning, I realized, Alexander was what I call a gatekeeper school.
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For wounded civilians at a U.S. military hospital in Afghanistan, the gatekeeper is God.
The Doctor’s War 2009
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The gatekeeper is the retweeter, who takes a look at the tweet and within seconds decides its value.
Global Voices in English » Iran: Myth and reality about Twitter 2009
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For wounded civilians at a U.S. military hospital in Afghanistan, the gatekeeper is God.
The Doctor’s War 2009
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For wounded civilians at a U.S. military hospital in Afghanistan, the gatekeeper is God.
The Doctor’s War 2009
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"It is left largely to the discretion of what the law likes to call the gatekeeper, that is, the trial judge," said F. Lee Bailey, the attorney who argued the Sheppard case before the Supreme Court, and eventually won his client's acquittal in a new trial.
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This aspect of the gatekeeper is very provocative because they don’t have your interest in mind, but there bottom line.
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The most common species, called the gatekeeper because of its habit of hanging around long grass by field gates, was down by 12% compared with last year while the biggest fall 61% was suffered by the common blue.
UK butterfly numbers fall following coldest summer in 18 years 2011
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That the gatekeeper should be a single private entity, which moreover imposes its own model of advertising (which may or may not work for every content provider), should provoke concern.
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That the gatekeeper should be a single private entity, which moreover imposes its own model of advertising (which may or may not work for every content provider), should provoke concern.
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