Synonyms of gatekeepers

gatekeepers

noun

plural of gatekeeper

as in janitors

a person who tends a door

those who are hopelessly unhip have little chance of making past the club's gatekeeper and his velvet rope

Synonyms & Similar Words

• janitors
• porters
• doorkeepers
• doormen

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of gatekeepers

The gatekeepers who controlled which stories were told to the wider public are falling away. — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2026

Pop culture in the pre-social internet, pre-streaming era was largely dictated top-down by industry gatekeepers, designed to appeal to as many people as possible. — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026

Trump’s order would have forced postal workers to serve as gatekeepers, deciding which ballots would be delivered and which wouldn’t. — Jen Fifield, ProPublica, 28 Sep. 2026

Today, even the gatekeepers are gone, or have turned into paywalls. — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026

LegitScript, a private, for-profit company, is among the most powerful gatekeepers in selling health services online. — Daniel Gilbert, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026

The Migration Of Power​ Through the 1990s and into the early 2000s, mainstream attention was funneled through a remarkably small number of gatekeepers. — Julia Ruttner, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026

If it could be sustained, such a strategy would make Iran and its regional partner de facto gatekeepers for trillions of dollars’ worth of trade each year. — April Longley Alley, Foreign Affairs, 11 Sep. 2026

But if the new player council takes hold, the shadow maverick may have helped force the sport’s gatekeepers to pull up a seat at the table, then made his own seat unnecessary. — Douglas Robson, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026