gatekeeper

 [geyt-kee-per]  

gate·keep·er

   [geyt-kee-per]
noun
1.
a person in charge of a gate, usually to identify, count, supervise, etc., the traffic or flow through it.
2.
guardian; monitor: the gatekeepers of Western culture.
Origin:
1565–75; gate1 + keeper
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Gatekeeper is always a great word to know.
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a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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gatekeeper (ˈɡeɪtˌkiːpə)
 
—n
1.  a person who has charge of a gate and controls who may pass through it
2.  any of several Eurasian butterflies of the genus Pyronia, esp P. tithonus, having brown-bordered orange wings with a black-and-white eyespot on each forewing: family Satyridae
3.  a manager in a large organization who controls the flow of information, esp to parent and subsidiary companies

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