Meanings
plural gatepersons · plural gatepeople
- rareA gatekeeper.
In three years of operation, full-time staff positions were increased from 27 to 67 in 1977, supplemented by 275 part-time employees: stagehands, gatepersons, and security personnel.
1980, Richard M. Hodgetts; Max S. Wortman, Jr., “The Rainbow Civic Center”, in Administrative Policy: Text and Cases in Strategic Management (The Wiley Series in Management), 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, part 5 (Urban Administration), page 640, column 22 more examples
In perhaps the most ill-advised innovation, the IC took all its trainmen, gatepersons, and ticket agents out of the traditional blue railroad uniforms and into airline-style clothing.
1993, Alan R. Lind, “The Railroad Within a Railroad: IC’s Chicago Suburban Lines”, in From the Lakes to the Gulf: The Illinois Central Story: An Illustrated History of the ‘Main Line of Mid-America’, Park Forest, Ill.: Transport History Press, →OCLC, page 65, column 1When you know the roles you have to fill you need to know how many of each role you will require, for example ‘gateperson’ is a role, but you will require as many gatepeople as you have gates, plus some reserves.
2004, Des Conway, “Staffing”, in The Event Manager’s Bible: How to Plan and Deliver an Event, Oxford, Oxfordshire: How To Books Ltd, →ISBN, page 176
Origin
From gate + -person, after gateman.
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