OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 47095

gatekeep

/ˈɡeɪt.kiːp/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
guardia • guardián • portero
A gatekeeper.
A gentleman stopped his horse at a toll-gate and not seeing the gatekeep went into the house.
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 be…
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📚 verb • entry_id 47094

gatekeep

/ˈɡeɪt.kiːp/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
acaparar • controlar • guardar • limitar • reservar • restringir
To limit (sometimes manipulatively, rather than directly) how much of a role another party, often a spouse, has in some task.