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street-keeper

street-keeper is the alternative form of streetkeeper.

Meaning of streetkeeper

Noun

streetkeeper (plural streetkeepers)

  1. A person who maintains order on the streets.
    • That the Commissioners shall from time to time appdnt a treasurer, clerk, surveyor, collector and assessor, beadle, streetkeeper, and such other officers as they shall think fit, with such salaries and allowances as they think reasonable.1860, Reports of Cases, H. Sweet, page 110

Forms of street-keeper

pluralstreet-keepers

Questions about street-keeper

What is street-keeper the alternative form of?
Street-keeper is the alternative form of streetkeeper.

Words near street-keeper in the dictionary

  1. street works
  2. street-arab
  3. street-arabs
  4. street-cleaner
  5. street-cleaners
  6. street-keeper
  7. street-keepers
  8. street-lamp
  9. street-lamps
  10. street-legal
  11. street-light

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