0 a person whose job is to open and close a gate and to prevent people entering without permission
The professors act as gatekeepers who determine which students are admitted into the competetive engineering program.
1 a person or organization that controls whether people can have or use a particular service:
In this respect, several partnership organisations were identified as 'learning gatekeepers ' who could facilitate the course in the local communities.
The number of women serving as gatekeepers correlates with publication rates of women.
Experience of health care: necessity of handing over to health care system, health professional as gatekeepers, restrictions by drugs and rehabilitation, confusing advice.
The nomination of artifacts by gatekeepers occurs at a control rate specified by the experimenter.
In the section below, we will consider whether the gender composition of gatekeepers correlates with the gender of published authors.
As long as party gatekeepers believe there is a personal vote, this belief will affect their decisions.
Such effects are virtually non-existent in closed party list systems, and therefore gatekeepers will feel less concern with failing to renominate incumbents.
The pivotal role of political parties as gatekeepers has been emphasised here as well.
