| 词汇 | janitor |
| 释义 | janitor noun[ C ] mainly US or Scottish Englishuk /ˈdʒæn.ɪ.tər/ us /ˈdʒæn.ə.t̬ɚ/(UK usuallycaretaker) C2 a person employed to take care of a large building, such as a school, and who deals with the cleaning, repairs, etc.管理员，看护人 Protection and protectors adopt adoptable aegis anti-shark anti-skid chaperone cybersecurity defence mechanism den mother doorkeeper elder care precaution preservationist ring-fence safe space safeguarding safekeeping safety net white knight witness protection janitor | American Dictionaryjanitor noun[ C ] us/ˈdʒæn·ɪ·t̬ər/ a person whose job is to clean and take care of a building janitor | Business Englishjanitor noun[ C ] USuk /ˈdʒænɪtər/us → caretakernoun Examples of janitorjanitor If the janitor could not handle the problem, the union's business agents had to step in using arguments and threats to gain compliance. Was it wide enough to accept union boycotts of buildings not hiring union janitors? There are often difficulties of this kind with media writers, as well as problems in attracting the attention of both princes and janitors. He worked with public officials trying to reduce air pollution, the "smoke menace," by training janitors to burn coal more efficiently. Worse, that superior was again a man of low social standing - the janitor who served as drill master. Similarly, the college janitor was always merely a tradesman. The trials of the janitors were part of the same misuse of public authority to intimidate the labor movement. Yet the masters and the janitor exercised considerable powers over the boys. On the other hand, any one employer had a modest stake in his janitor, because he hired a fraction of his time. They spoke to the janitor, the cops, about that robbery yesterday. They spoke, the cops, to the janitor about that robbery yesterday. A construction boom in the housing industry may have contributed to the decline of interest in prosecuting the janitors. And the janitor was no gentleman at all. The janitors received a wage increase, averaging about 7 percent, and better working conditions. We are janitors with respect to our bodies, rather than their final arbiters. See all examples of janitor These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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