janitoriat
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From janitor.
Noun[edit]
janitoriat (countable and uncountable, plural janitoriats)
- The people whose function is to protect leaders and similar important people from contact with the populace.
- 2007 January 9, Michiko Kakutani, “Love, Bludgeoned and Bent by the Camps”, in New York Times[1]:
- 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.”