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streetkeeper

streetkeeper noun: a person who maintains order on the streets.

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
    • The Schoolmaster gave him a sharp look. “I’ve heard about you. You’re the streetkeeper who bit the hand that fed him.”2013, Holloway, Emma Jane, A study in Darkness, Del Rey, page 52

Examples of streetkeeper in a sentence

  • An attempt to put up a billboard in Palace Yard by the old House of Commons at Westminster failed, ‘the streetkeeper not permitting it, it was fetched away and carried to Mr.2012, Hicks, Gary, The First Adman, Victorian Secrets, page 101
  • A certain Mr Barnard, the streetkeeper, had the job of lighting these lamps every evening.1993, Memories of Knysna, Friends of the Knysna Libraries, page 33
  • The convoy made its way to Senlis where the jailer doubled as streetkeeper and the prison was left in the command of his formidable wife.2011, Morton, James, The First Detective, Overlook Press, page 45:
  • The municipality appointed a special streetkeeper to each of these districts, whose duty it was to see that destitute sick persons were conveyed to the hospitals and to enforce cleanliness.1908, Theal, George McCall, History of South Africa since September 1795, Sonnenschein, page 83:

Forms of streetkeeper

pluralstreetkeepers

Questions about streetkeeper

What does streetkeeper mean?
Streetkeeper means a person who maintains order on the streets.
How do you use streetkeeper in a sentence?
An attempt to put up a billboard in Palace Yard by the old House of Commons at Westminster failed, ‘the streetkeeper not permitting it, it was fetched away and carried to Mr.
What part of speech is streetkeeper?
Streetkeeper is a noun.
What is the plural of streetkeeper?
The plural of streetkeeper is streetkeepers.

Words near streetkeeper in the dictionary

  1. Streethay
  2. streetie
  3. streeties
  4. streeting
  5. Streetings
  6. streetkeeper
  7. streetkeepers
  8. streetlamp
  9. streetlamps
  10. streetless
  11. streetlessness

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