発音
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/ˈɡeɪt.kiːp/
動詞
To control or limit access to something.
用法- 他動詞
To limit (sometimes manipulatively, rather than directly) how much of a role another party, often a spouse, has in some task.
用法- 他動詞
To limit another party's participation in a collective identity or an activity, usually due to undue pettiness, resentment, or overprotectiveness.
用法- broadly
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名詞
A gatekeeper.
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その他の例文 (1)
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.
Though there was a moment of anxiety, a generous bribe persuaded the gatekeep to overlook their expired passports and they rode into Calais.
その他の例文 (1)
“At least those doxies don't fancy themselves the gatekeeps of God, like the priest.” Margit said.