gatekeeping

About 0.12 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The act or process of limiting another party's participation in a collective identity or an activity, usually due to undue pettiness, resentment, selfishness, complacency, or overprotectiveness.
2. verb present participle and gerund of gatekeep

Similar words

monitoring surveillance gatekeeperism exclusivism exclusionism closure tone policing segregationalism paternalism apartheid

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