gatekeep
verb
- to monitor or select information; to control access to something
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈɡeɪt.kiːp/
noun
Etymology: From gate + keep, as back-formation from gatekeeper.
- A gatekeeper.
“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 behind "her husband's" broad back.”
“A gentleman stopped his horse at a toll-gate and not seeing the gatekeep went into the house.”
verb
Etymology: From gate + keep, as back-formation from gatekeeper.
- To control or limit access to something.
- To limit (sometimes manipulatively, rather than directly) how much of a role another party, often a spouse, has in some task.
- To limit another party's participation in a collective identity or an activity, usually due to undue pettiness, resentment, or overprotectiveness.