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gatekeep

verb

  1. to monitor or select information; to control access to something
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈɡeɪt.kiːp/

noun

Etymology: From gate + keep, as back-formation from gatekeeper.

  1. 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.

  1. To control or limit access to something.
  2. To limit (sometimes manipulatively, rather than directly) how much of a role another party, often a spouse, has in some task.
  3. To limit another party's participation in a collective identity or an activity, usually due to undue pettiness, resentment, or overprotectiveness.