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gateperson

gateperson noun: a gatekeeper.

Noun

gateperson (plural gatepersons or gatepeople)

  1. (rare) A gatekeeper.
    • In three years of operation, full-time staff positions were increased from 27 to 67 in 1977, supplemented by 275 part-time employees: stagehands, gatepersons, and security personnel.1980, Richard M. Hodgetts; Max S. Wortman, Jr., “The Rainbow Civic Center”, in Administrative Policy: Text and Cases in Strategic Management (The Wiley Series in Management), 2nd edition, New York...
    • In perhaps the most ill-advised innovation, the IC took all its trainmen, gatepersons, and ticket agents out of the traditional blue railroad uniforms and into airline-style clothing.1993, Alan R. Lind, “The Railroad Within a Railroad: IC’s Chicago Suburban Lines”, in From the Lakes to the Gulf: The Illinois Central Story: An Illustrated History of the ‘Main Line of Mid-America’...

Forms of gateperson

pluralgatepersons
pluralgatepeople

Origin of gateperson

From gate + -person, after gateman.

Questions about gateperson

What does gateperson mean?
Gateperson means a gatekeeper.
What part of speech is gateperson?
Gateperson is a noun.
What is the plural of gateperson?
The plural of gateperson is gatepersons.

Words near gateperson in the dictionary

  1. Gately
  2. Gatelys
  3. gateman
  4. gatemen
  5. gatepeople
  6. gateperson
  7. gatepersons
  8. gatepier
  9. gatepiers
  10. gatepost
  11. gateposts

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