janitoriat

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noun

The people whose function is to protect leaders and similar important people from contact with the populace.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounjanitoriat (countable and uncountable, plural janitoriats)

plural janitoriats

  1. countableuncountableThe people whose function is to protect leaders and similar important people from contact with the populace.
    1 more example

    His narrator starkly conjures up the deadly class structure there, including “the pigs — the janitoriat of administrators and guards”; the urkas, “socially friendly elements” who did no work; “the snakes,” otherwise known as informants; and the “politicals,” or so-called fascists, like himself and his brother, who are regarded as “the enemies of the people.”

    2007 January 9, Michiko Kakutani, “Love, Bludgeoned and Bent by the Camps”, in New York Times

Origin

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APA

janitoriat. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/janitoriat

MLA

“janitoriat.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/janitoriat. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “janitoriat,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/janitoriat.

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