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ˈgate-keeper
[f. gate n.1 + keeper n.]
1. One who has charge of a gate.
1572Huloet, Gate keeper, or a porter. 1712Lond. Gaz. No. 5028/1 That the Gate-keepers give constant Attendance at the Gates. 1845Disraeli Sybil (Rtldg.) 323 The gate-keeper ought not to have let them pass. 1896Law Times Rep. LXXIII. 615/2 There is no general duty on railway companies to place gatekeepers at level crossings.
fig.1872Yeats Growth Comm. 59 The products of every clime were thus brought to Rome, ‘the gatekeeper of the world’.
2. A species of butterfly.
1819G. Samouelle Entomol. Compend. 240 Hipparchia Megæra (gate-keeper). a1887Jefferies Field & Hedgerow (1889) 227 The Gatekeeper butterfly is common.
▸ In extended use: a person or thing that controls access to something, or that monitors and selects information, etc.
1867Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 15735 Sabatier speaks of the verumontanum as the gate-keeper of the prostatic portion of the urethra. 1909Times 4 Mar. 6/4 A new claim has now been set up, on the ground that the Mahomedans are ‘the gatekeepers of India’. 1947Human Relations 1 145/2 Gate Sections are governed either by impartial rules or by ‘gate keepers’. In the latter case an individual or group is ‘in power’ for making the decision between ‘in’ or ‘out’. 1960W. Schramm Mass Communications (ed. 2) 176 All along the chain are a series of gatekeepers, who have the right to open or close the gate to any message that comes along... The first gatekeeper is the person who sees the news happen... The second gatekeeper is the reporter who talks to this ‘news source’. 1984N.Y. Times 15 May a1 Congress did not intend to create an elaborate independent counsel machinery..only to establish the Attorney General as the ‘gatekeeper’ of that machinery, able, without the slightest review by anyone, to open the gate or slam it shut as it may suit his purpose. 2002Independent 28 Feb. i. 1/1 After more than 50 years in which GPs have jealously guarded their position as ‘gatekeepers’ to the NHS. |