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gatekeep en · NOUN

From gate + keep, as back-formation from gatekeeper.

A gatekeeper.
- “At least those doxies don't fancy themselves the gatekeeps of God, like the priest.” Margit said. 2017, Jeannie Troll, A Clever Girl:
- A gentleman stopped his horse at a toll-gate and not seeing the gatekeep went into the house. 1969, Donald M. Hines, Dust Devils in the Great Desert:
- Though there was a moment of anxiety, a generous bribe persuaded the gatekeep to overlook their expired passports and they rode into Calais. 1987, Maggie Osborne, Chase the Heart, page 278:
- Similar remarks had passed the cherry-stained lips a hundred times, and this one was brought on just after the gatekeep at the north postern of Bull Joy had slyly given the wink behind "her husband's" broad back. 1949, Laverne Gay, Wine of Ssatan a Novel of the First Crusade, page 129:

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
gate-keep		alternative	lexicographic
gatekeeps	Number=Plur		lexicographic

pt porteiradora (noun) · es portero (noun) · pt porteirador (noun) · pt porteiradore (noun)

From gate + keep, as back-formation from gatekeeper.

(transitive) To control or limit access to something.
(transitive) To limit (sometimes manipulatively, rather than directly) how much of a role another party, often a spouse, has in some task.
(broadly, transitive) To limit another party's participation in a collective identity or an activity, usually due to undue pettiness, resentment, or overprotectiveness.

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
gatekept	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
gatekept	Tense=Past		lexicographic
gatekeeps	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic
gate-keep		alternative	lexicographic
gatekeeping	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic

id jaga pintu (verb) · id jaga tolak (verb) · pt porteirar (verb)