gatekeep (English, verb)
expansion: gatekeep (third-person singular simple present gatekeeps, present participle gatekeeping, simple past and past participle gatekept)
Senses:
glosses: To control or limit access to something.
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: To limit (sometimes manipulatively, rather than directly) how much of a role another party, often a spouse, has in some task.
glosses: To limit another party's participation in a collective identity or an activity, usually due to undue pettiness, resentment, or overprotectiveness.
tags: broadly
Forms:
form: gatekeeps
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gatekeeping
tags: participle
present
form: gatekept
tags: participle
past
form: gatekept
tags: past
form: gate-keep
tags: alternative