GATEKEEPER

doorkeeper, doorman, door guard, hall porter, porter, gatekeeper, ostiary

(noun) someone who guards an entrance

gatekeeper

(noun) someone who controls access to something; “there are too many gatekeepers between the field officers and the chief”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

gatekeeper (plural gatekeepers)

A person or group who controls access to something or somebody.

A person who guards or monitors passage through a gate.

A common orange and brown butterfly with eyespots, Pyronia tithonus, of the family Nymphalidae.

Source: Wiktionary



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The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.

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