gamekeeper

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person employed to manage game animals and their habitat on an estate, especially for hunting

   The gamekeeper monitored the pheasant population and repaired fences around the woodland.

A compound of game, in the sense of wild animals hunted for sport, + keeper, a person who guards or manages something. The occupation became especially associated with British landed estates and managed hunting grounds.

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