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janitoriat en · NOUN

Etymology

From janitor.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The people whose function is to protect leaders and similar important people from contact with the populace.
   • His narrator starkly conjures up the deadly class structure there, including “the pigs — the janitoriat of administrators and guards”; the urkas, “socially friendly elements” who did no work; “the snakes,” otherwise known as informants; and the “politicals,” or so-called fascists, like himself and his brother, who are regarded as “the enemies of the people.” 2007 January 9, Michiko Kakutani, “Love, Bludgeoned and Bent by the Camps”, in New York Times:

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