doorman 
door·man (-man′, -mən)
noun pl. -·men′-men′, -mən
a person whose work is opening the door of a building for those who enter or leave, hailing taxicabs, etc.
Converse of object
- ask: A group of girls from Vermont was asking the doorman of Corcoran's to take a picture of them.
- employ: They have even had to employ a doorman at the local line dancing class in a bid to prevent rowdy youngsters causing trouble.
- have: If you have people in the back make sure you have a doorman.
- train: The possibility of introducing or improving late night public transport services with, for example, trained doorman on board.
- play: Fed up with playing doorman to your cat, without a tip?
- provide: He was employed by ASE Security Services who were contracted to provide doormen to Luminar Leisure.
Preposition: at
- hotel: And the doorman at the posh hotel behind her also realized and came out armed with tablecloths and warm water.
- nightclub: You are thrown off guard when the doorman at the nightclub is happy to see you.
- club: The night before his death he worked until 3am as a doorman at a club out Basildon way.
Converse of subject
- greet: From the moment you are greeted by the liveried doorman, you will experience a cordial yet discreet welcome.
Adjective modifier
- friendly: We can't find them anywhere, then spot Yannis in conversation with the previously friendly doorman.
- former: Lock Martin, a former hotel doorman, was cast as Gort due to his impressive height of 7 foot, 7inches.
- good: Best doormen in the world, scary but at the same time friendly!
Modifies a noun
- won't: Sorry, folks, flashing your iPod at the doorman wonât get you in.
Noun used with modifier
- nightclub: Built like the proverbial nightclub doorman, Austin has also adopted the " thou shalt not pass " mentality of that particular brethren.
- club: A scheme to register pub and club doormen has been agreed in principle by the Council.
- hotel: There is another slightly different version, stating that Broadway musical directors would do the same test on an aging hotel doorman.
- claridges: Always seats available - interesting mix of clientele: cabbies & Claridges doormen.
- dancing: We call him the dancing doorman because he's always dancing.
- night: The case involved a customer who was stabbed in the spine by a night club doorman and as a result became paralyzed.
Nuestro portero descubrio¤ , o creyo¤ descubrir, que su labor no se pod|¤a limitar a abrir la puerta del edificio, sino que e¤ l, el portero, era el sen alado, el elegido, el indicadopara mostrarles a todas aquellas personas una puerta ma¤ s amplia y hasta entonces invisible o inaccesible; puerta que era la de sus propias vidas. Our doorman discovered (or thought he had discovered) that his tasks could not be limited to just opening the door of the buildingöbut that he, the doorman, was the one chosen, elected, singled outto show everyone who lived there a wider door, until then either invisible or inaccessible: the door to their own lives.
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