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Gatekeeper

noun

Someone who controls access to something.

Someone who guards an entrance. Synonyms: door guard, doorkeeper, doorman, hall porter, ostiary, porter.

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"Gatekeeper" Quotes from Famous Books

... that were hung dead, one was named Hugh Mizcally. The name of the person so timely cut down was Levi Smith, a most furious tory. This title produced him such respect among those degenerate Britons, that they appointed him gatekeeper of Charleston, a circumstance that operated much against the poor whigs in the country. For Smith soon broke up a pious kind of fraud, which the wives and daughters of the tories had for some time carried on at ...

— The Life of General Francis Marion • Mason Locke Weems

... before people were giving their names as inquirers. The missionaries' servants were among the first to respond, and their friends and relatives followed. Other helpers around the place were needed: a gardener, a gatekeeper, and so on, and naturally these were chosen from among the first converts. Soon the busy compound was like one happy family—all gathering the first thing in the morning for prayer, and joining their voices in song, praising ...

— Have We No Rights? - A frank discussion of the "rights" of missionaries • Mabel Williamson